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From: Robin Faichney[SMTP:r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 1997 9:19 AM
To: 'Church of Virus'
Subject: RE: virus: Religion {Work Rant}
James wrote:
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>From: Eric Boyd[SMTP:6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca]
>>Television, n. Box populi. Life support system for a consumer
>>consciousness.
>>Marx called religion "the opiate of the people"; television, as
>>implemented
>>under state-enforced monopoly, can only be described as "the people's
>>crack"
>>-- a brain-destroying drug administered through a glass tube. Soma for
>>shut-ins.
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>Even without government monopoly, television tends to become this.
Probably more so. The TV trance is greatly to the advantage of
the advertisers. See The Trance Domain, http://www.trance.ch/trance/
Robin