THE WORLD WOULD HAVE FAR LESS PROBLEMS, IF WE LOOKED, AND LISTENED, BEFORE WE LEAPED.

In The Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and The Survival of The Indian Nations by Jerry Mander.

“In his critically acclaimed Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, author and social critic Jerry Mander proclaimed that television, by its fundamental nature, is dangerous—to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to the democratic process. With In the Absence of the Sacred, he goes beyond television to critique our technological society as a whole.
In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world’s loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward global environmental disaster and social disorder—and worse lies ahead. Yet models for restoring our relationship with the Earth exist in the cultures of native peoples, whose values and skills have enabled them to survive centuries of invasion and exploitation.
Far from creating paradise on Earth, technology has instead produced an unsustainable contest for resources. Mander surveys the major technologies shaping the “new world order” — computers, telecommunications, space exploration, genetic engineering, robotics, and the corporation itself—and warns that they are merging into a global mega-technology, with dire environmental and political results.”

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“I would highly recommend Mr. Mander’s work In the Absence of the Sacred. I would also recommend his Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television. I read this book in the 1970’s, and it changed my TV watching habits forever. I would agree with Mr. Mander that television is dangerous to the overall health of the individual, and the community. I would, in fact, take it much further along those lines.

I would argue that TV is a devastatingly effective tool of those who would wish to destroy the traditional family and the future of human society. Televison, and the news media in general, is a weaponized medium, supported by computer-driven models, social engineers, and propagandists of every kind. They are hopelessly disconnected and utterly mad, and they do not have your best interests in mind.

My advice – kill your TV. Kill it quick, and forever, today. You will find much less “noise” in your world, and you will wonder how you ever put up with such a terror in your home.” – Michael Patrick McCarty

“I got one that can see”. From John Carpenter’s cult classic movie , They Live