2007 is Here so Think on It

Have you noticed that more and more people have stopped thinking? Its as if they have surrendered their minds to the mass media hysteria and Television Set. But why has this happened. It is truly amazing how many folks simply repeat the words and comments from the Television News with really now personal views of their own. Well of course they will tell us that these are their personal views, but really they are only adopted from what was on the Television.

Worse off is the fact that the Television News is getting more and more shallow each year and the news segments are just 30-second to one minute sound bytes. Apparently this is to allow for more Television Commercials and allow for maximum viewer ship without over taxing anyone’s brain. It is as if the attention span of the average human has gone from 30 minutes to 15 minutes to 7 minutes and now to 4-minutes. After all 4-minutes is all there is between commercials now.

In fact you have probably noticed that the news commentators barely let the interviewees talk and cut them off mid sentence and go to a “hard commercial break” with less than a few pages of text spoken during the entire coverage of a given event. People are now told what to think, what to say and how to act and therefore they no longer need their brains and thus the old saying; “Use it or lose it!”

It should be obvious that it is indeed time to wake up the masses and teach them to think again, before it is too late. We should all be discussing original thought or the lack of and how our society is changing in the present period. We must consider the unfortunate potential eventualities that these situations are leading us too and perhaps solutions to consider. We must also put forth some original ideas and alternative viewpoints to think on. I appreciate you reading my many articles on this subject and hope you will be thinking while reading. Perhaps this article is of interest to propel thought in 2007?

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Lance Winslow, a retired entrepreneur, adventurer, modern day philosopher and perpetual tourist.

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