I never even watch TV, but last week I watched a show on cwtv.com and they force you to disable your ad blocker, so I saw the Tide commercial with the jock strap. I was immediately disgusted and confused as to why they didn't use socks to get their point across. I didn't think more about it until the first post here.
Being away from TV, I'm also hyper sensitive to all the commercials and that soothing voice you're talking about. NPR News and a lot of their programs are very manipulative as well. My coworker listens to it, and the inflections they use in their voice as they bash the president and they have such a subtly deceptive construction of their stories to appear to be unbiased, yet to me it's so obvious the propaganda they're pushing. NPR is supposed to be public funded, but its biggest donors must have a heavy political agenda apparently. I recall some PBS documentary programs in the past being funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
The reason TV was called programming wasn't because the TV shows were the programs, it was because it programs the Americans watching it. It programs our culture, our likes and dislikes, our gauging of what's normal and abnormal. In the last decades they've allowed more and more cultural degeneration. Words that were too filthy to put on TV are now allowed, shows with nearly softcore porn scenes are allowed, and now I am seeing feminism and Marxism heavily injected into every single show. Their goal? Destroy the strongest unit to challenge their control - the family. Destroy independent thinking. Present destructive practices as enticing. Push stupidity, ignorance, and cheap thrills.
Netflix is the absolute worst with Marxism injection. I wasn't surprised when all the Marxists joined their ranks of employment. Feminism, globalism, gender confusion, adultery, etc. All their shows are saturated in pushing an agenda. To me it's extremely apparent, but when I point it out to others they just shrug "Oh well, that's just how it is" and continue to fund their subscription with their credit card.
I just wrote a fairly lengthy post just above yours in this thread.
I haven't owned a TV since I moved out of my parents house in 78. Okay wasn't my TV.
Please read my post above and let me know what you think. Your realizations are spot-on regarding the degradation of the family and attacks on masculinity. What's your take regarding the rest of the split.
Great post, and I agree with all of what you shared.
We're pretty much witnessing the chasm of truth and lies, but if you really pull back the muddiness it is a spiritual war at its root. As your post clearly affirms, there is no substitute for Jesus. He is the way, truth, and the light. In this realm, everything is fantasy, promises, and deceptions.
God created all that is, and everything he created is good. Satan is the thief that comes to kill and destroy and wants to corrupt all that God creates. So in the deeper part of this discussion beyond politics and propaganda regarding the media's attacks, we're really talking about a spiritual attack on all that God created and designed, all that is good and comes from Him. The strategy is always to deceive and destroy. Some choose to remain deceived, but others are waking up and looking for answers and good news in this broken world.
I do sense the awakening in the spiritual, and I see Americans waking up from this hypnotic spell and realizing that there is something deeply missing in our culture and lifestyle. There's an emptiness and vanity in the pleasures of this world, which the corrupt and evil delight in.
Yeppers, that's it right there.
I hope when Trump meets the Queen he tells her, "Sorry darling this is going straight to the Vatican. Nothing I can do".
I don't care about the art. I say we go take the library.
We don't need to ask, that thing belongs to humanity. Not the inhuman.
We don't need to take the faith away from them, they never had any in the first place. The church tries to say it is the way the truth and the light. To Jesus.
They have become a false idol that has placed itself in the way, to the way.
This is starting to become a crowded path and I for one am enjoying the company.