There is no democracy on the airwaves. When we're forbidden public discourse via our own airwaves, it's time to rethink the contracts that comprise our society. Upon signing the Magna Carta in 1215, King John rolled on the ground in a rage and chewed bits of wood. Night after night, we sit for long hours in dark rooms.
Identical images flow into our brains, homogenizing our perspectives, knowledge, tastes, desires.
If we forego the role of participant in the real world, we become spectators in the flickering world of make-believe. Twenty years ago the environmental movement shocked the world into realizing that our natural environment was dying. Our attention spans are diminishing, our imaginations giving out, we are unable to remember the past. TV Turnoff Week is April 24-30. You can download your TV Turnoff Week poster from the Adbusters website.