Television evokes Orienting Responses that are woven into the fabric of our neuromuscular system. When we read, we scan the books, we are in control. But when we watch tv, it is the tv scanner that 'reads' us. Our retinas are the direct object of the electron beam. When scanning meets glancing and makes eye contact between eye and machine, the machine's glance is the more powerful.
Television homogenizes reality, and computers create it.
Television and computers conquered the industrialized world, carving and shaping the corporate psychology according to their own highly distinctive criteria which, in turn, formed and informed distinctive policies within the culture that helped to develop others. The heroes of cultural movements past and present are bought off. The easiest way to deter threats is to absorb them. The reasoning behind universal suffrage was to eliminate the boat rockers by putting the rebels in the boat. It's time to learn how to swim jack.