Gerry Mander on the elimination of television Gerry Mander on the necessity to eliminate television by Alan Pert Gerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is one of the best books about TV and its deleterious effects. The book is also a penetrating criticism of modern society and some of the social forces that control our lives. An artificial world We live in an increasingly artificial world, cut off from the natural environment. Everything natural is eliminated so that people will focus on the narrow task at hand.
TV is a powerful tool for changing the environment of people and thus their behaviour.
The problem is TV itself Most critics of TV concentrate on the quality of programs. Therefore it is no good trying to improve the programs,TV itself must be eliminated. TV is mind control A TV picture consists of 300,000 dots of light, beamed at high power into the brain. The TV picture exists only in the brain of the viewer. TV pictures lodge in the brain against our will.