PROPAGANDA: American Happiness Peaked in the 1950s BEFORE Television Brainwashing Convinced Us That We Were Unhappy Unless We Bought Their Plastic Crap.

The Movie PROPAGANDA States that Television is used to Brainwash People into Becoming Mindless Consumers... and that the Main Technique is to Convince Viewers that they Would Become Happy if They Simply Bought The Product Being Advertised...

Ever Notice that People DANCE Wildly With The Product in TV Ads? Ecstasy! Wayfair = BLISS! Instant Joy Thru Consumption...

Propaganda
is a 2012 New Zealand mockumentary[2] film directed by Slavko Martinov. It takes the view of the North Korean government and describes western media and culture as purely forms of propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(2012_film)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2279306/


This Film Uses Humor to Reveal Truth... Well Worth Watching...
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/propaganda-2012/

How I Fight The Mind Control: I Mute the Sound Whenever a TV Commercial Starts... Then I Close my Eyes and Say a Prayer While Doing Deep Breathing. I Contact God Maybe 8 Times an Hour While Watching TV... and That's a Wonderful Thing to Do Instead of Absorbing Evil Messages Telling Me I'm Unhappy... and the Solution is to BUY! BUY! BUY!


https://youtu.be/nRnNDkHb0MU
"I Am the Slime From the Video" by Frank Zappa


and Even Weirder than Wayfair... The REAL REAL... Super Expensive "Designer" Merchandise 90% Off because it's Used... Because 90% of the Price of New Designer Merchandise is BOGUS!


Did You Know That There is an Entire Illegal Business Based on Using Stolen Credit Cards to buy Purses that Cost $600.00 and Reselling them Online...


The Worst Example of TV Advertising Brainwashing is PSYCH MEDS... because PSYCH MEDS Frequently Cause Mental Health Problems... That's More Customers for The Drug Companies... Try our Drug XYZ and if That Doesn't Help... Try our Drug EIEIO... Don't Worry, It's All Paid for by Insurance...


It Reminds me of "Soma" from the Book Brave New World...

Ever see an add for 1-800-GOT JUNK ??? That's a Business That Will Take Your Excess Plastic Crap Away... and the People That Use this Service Dance Wildly With Joy! We Consumed and it Failed to Make Us Happy but Now a Guy Will Haul Away all those Super Duper Excellent Purchases! WHEE!


I'm Angered by all the TV Ads for Prescription Medicine. Patients Pay for Those TV Ads in Higher Drug Prices... I Buy Doctor Drugs and Every time I See Some Crap being Promoted I Realize That They Took MY MONEY and Used it to Buy TV Ads.

and then there are the Endless Advertisements for Medicare Supplement Plans... That's Elder Abuse! When I Turned 65 I Had to Make Choices about My Medicare Insurance... I Could Not Understand the Cost vs Benefit of the Competing Insurance Companies... So I selected to Buy the Coverage Offered by the Labor Union I Belonged to When I was Working... I Figured that They Would Have Negotiated the best plan... SEIU is a Huge Union and Very Powerful... I find that My Sister In Law ALSO was Confused by Medicare Supplemental Plans... and She's been a Nurse for 40 Years... so she chose the plan offered by AARP because they are a Reputable Organization... However, Every time I see a TV AD Selling Medicare Supplemental Insurance I Have the Instinctive Emotion that I'm Getting Ripped OFF... and I Could Do Better... but I'm Afraid to Actually Call the 800 Number on My Screen because I Have the Gut Feeling That I'll be talking to a Hard Sell Telemarketer that'll try to Rip Me Off Even Worse!

also... Advertising and Mind Control is Used In ALL TV Shows... Especially TV NEWS... FOX uses the FEAR Reflex to Keep Viewers Watching... This Works Because a Million Years of Evolution Favored People That Were Afraid... and Vigilant... and Those People Had More Children that Survived to Adulthood... For Example: If a Member of the Tribe working as a Guard Said "DANGER DANGER" When a Sabre Toothed Tiger Approached People Sleeping... The People That WOKE UP and Got a Weapon to Defend Themselves Survived... and That Technique works Today... In Cave Man Days, Strangers Could Attack and Steal Food and Women...

TV NEWS Marketing Sells Hate of Strangers... and The Entire Republican Party Sells "Stranger Danger" - Look at Trump's Border Wall... Designed to Keep Brown Skinned People OUT of the USA...
and When Black People from Haiti Tried to Get In... We Bought 'em a One Way Airplane Ticket Right Back Where they Came From. That was a Democratic Party Action...

and it's Not Just FOX... All TV Shows Sell Fear... That way People will buy More GUNS... and More Burglar Alarm Systems... Look at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC... Endless Stories of Danger-Danger... and Stranger Danger...


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I took an Online Survey about Childhood Trauma and Recovery... and Had this to say: I don't know much about childhood trauma because I Had a Happy Childhood and everyone in my family did... Basically... we are good people and live our lives doing good... we are opposed to evil... and it's obvious to tell the difference... I believe we ought to arrest many more evil people and keep them incarcerated... that way they won't breed and their defective genes will not be passed on to the next generation...


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Favorite Grateful Dead Concerts: I think that the Live Performances at Football Stadiums were Wonderful Experiences - It was Truly Amazing to be in a Huge Crowd High on LSD... I started in 1972 and Loved Every Era...


Stopped Going after the Fare Ye Well concerts... Attended Stadium Shows at JFK Philadelphia, RFK Washington DC, Three Rivers Pittsburgh and Levi Santa Clara... Of Course, My Favorite Show was Winterland 1974 when they filmed the movie... wall of sound...

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TAX THE RICH. CUT TAXES ON EVERYONE ELSE. We ought to Repeal and Replace Trump's "Tax Cut for the Rich Law" - At the Very Least, The Rich Ought To Be Arrested for Income Tax Evasion... Just Like You and I Are... #France1789

Let's CUT Taxes on 99% of Americans and Increase Taxes on the Top 1% - It's Not Complicated.


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Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

and Now... The DOJ is investigating the REPORTER that Told the Truth... WHY NOT FIX THE ACTUAL PROBLEM? The Super Rich are Cheating on Their Taxes... Mainly by Bribing Lawmakers to Pass LOOPHOLE LAWS That Make it Legal to Avoid Paying Their Fair Share...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10/opinions/america-tax-system-rigged-protect-rich-sachs/index.html

If we simply Taxed the Rich like we Do The Middle Class... We Could Afford Wonderful Things... Like Free College, Medicare For All, a Clean Environment... https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax



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GOP = Greed Over People

Everyone knows that the Trillion Dollar a Year giveaway to the 1% leaves the Federal Government without Money to Pay for Basic Services...

Even CZAR Donald says we can't afford to pay a RAISE to Federal Employees...

That standard COLA increase is used to keep PAYCHECKS as big as INFLATION. No one gets any more REAL money because retail prices are going up...

SO, When the Democrats take over the House and Senate... we need to Repeal and Replace Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law.

https://nextgenamerica.org/act/tax-scam-accountability/





When WAS America Great? MAGA? 1969? 1954? 1854? 1776? 1620? 1492? 1000 BC? What Year Does tRUMP Want To Go Back To? I'm Looking Forward to 2021. Biden in the White House, tRUMP in Prison.

Each Year Has it's Own Cultural Meaning... My Favorite Year was 1969... We Walked on the Moon, Danced at Woodstock and Rioted at the Stonewall Bar in NYC... and AIDS Had Not Been Designed by the US Military Bio-Warfare Division Yet...

tRUMP has a Fantasy Desire to Return to 1954... Back Before The Women's Liberation Movement, The Civil Rights Movement, The Gay Rights Movement... He's Confused the TV Show "Happy Days" with Reality... and in the Fifties, His Father Could Buy Donald Out of Trouble... Not True in 2020...

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Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns and Melt Guns. Here's a Step By Step Guide to Disarming America. or... we could DO NOTHING...
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Tucker Carlson Says: ‘Obviously’ We’re ‘Speeding Toward Assassination’ of Trump. Is Tucker Trying to Motivate a Madman to Pull the Trigger? Revenge for Trump Getting Him Fired at Fox? DO NOT KILL TRUMP. THAT WOULD BE WRONG. YOU WILL GO TO PRISON OR BE SHOT BY THE POLICE!
According to Carlson, “both parties have decided that there’s something about Trump that’s so threatening to them, they just can’t have it.”...


CRIME IS LEGAL FOR REPUBLICANS. Obviously Guilty: Texas Attorney General Paxton. But He was Acquitted! That's INSANE!
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AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.
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Kari Lake Fined $122,200 for frivolous Lawsuit... Alan Dershowitz to pay penalties too... SEE? BEHAVE CRAZY AND YOU GET FINED!
Did You Ever Wonder? The Sun Appears to be The Same Size as a Quarter Held at Arm's Length. AND... The Moon Appears to be The Same Size ...


Fun Things to do in Eureka and Arcata California - The Tallest Trees, The Finest Weed, Humboldt State University and SIX, Count 'em SIX Rivers... On Highway 101 Near Oregon... SAMBA!
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Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!
Happy PI Day March 14th 0: number invented by Indian Mathematicians. Brought to the middle east by an Arabian named Al Khwarizmi. (origin...

and then I read on FaceBorg...
Trump has too much control of the republicans and it’s dangerous
Strategic, surgical efforts by former President Trump’s campaign to overhaul obscure Republican Party rules in states around the nation, including California, have created an opportunity for the GOP front-runner to quickly sew up his party's presidential nomination.
The former president's aides have sculpted rules in dozens of states , starting even before his 2020 reelection bid. Their work is ongoing: In addition to California, state Republican parties in Nevada and Michigan have recently overhauled their rules in ways clearly designed to favor Trump.
The Trump campaign succeeded in changing the rules "in part because they knew what they were doing and in part because everyone else is asleep at the switch," Ginsberg added.
The changes could discourage campaigning and decrease voter participation , said Dan Lee, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
We cannot allow this deranged man in the White House again or we will have a dictatorship and no more democracy

and then I read on FaceBorg: SE Said...

I see a lot of posts where people think it's absolutely hilarious that people "used to" print out directions on Mapquest rather than just using GPS to direct them everywhere. I find this to be slightly offensive, because some of us prefer using maps. I don't like relying on GPS to direct me everywhere. I prefer having a paper map to refer to. I particularly hate the sound of the computerized GPS voice, especially if I'm riding with someone else and we're trying to have a conversation. A paper map won't interrupt your conversation, but an obnoxious computer voice can totally derail your train of thought. Also, for me, it really helps to see an actual map of where I'm going because it gives me the layout of the area, and I'm able to figure out how to get around a lot easier than if I just blindly follow a computer voice's turn-by-turn directions. I actually prefer REAL maps. I have a collection of AAA maps which I love to look at, and I still have several old Thomas Guides.
For example: how could anyone possibly learn the layout of the San Francisco Bay Area by relying on GPS? Without looking at an actual map of the bay, you'd have no way of knowing if you're in the South Bay, the East Bay, or the Peninsula. The GPS will just tell you where to turn, and then you'll be going alongside the bay somewhere, but how would you even know which side of the bay you are on? Using a regular map makes it clear which side of the bay you're on!
It's weird that some people act like maps are some relic from the distant past which nobody uses anymore. Maps are an important tool in learning the layout of an area, and that has not changed. Maps are not going anywhere.


and I Replied:
When I worked at Domino's Pizza we had a Map of our delivery area that was SIX FEET TALL and Twelve Feet Wide... Because we REALLY wanted to know exactly where to deliver the Pizza. and We Wrote instructions on the wall map (watch out for dog - DO NOT Turn Right at the bottom of the Hill because the owner will fire a shotgun warning blast ETC ETC)

I've been BLOCKED from Posting on FaceBorg for 3 Days Because I Said: "I'm so Old that I took LSD at a Grateful Dead Concert. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!" - In Response to an "I'm So Old" meme...

Thankfully I Have 12 Other Social media sites! Of Course, I'm Welcome to READ FaceBorg... and SHOP on FaceBorg... but NO WRITING!

anyway... Now I'm Back... and NOT writing about "Forbidden Subjects"

Here's another "I'm So Old" Statement...

"carriage return" ... That's what the ENTER Key is Called on a Typewriter... I took typing class in High School but never actually typed anything... in College or at Work... I have used a Mimeograph Machine... To make Posters for Teen Club Dances... I Scratched large letters and Pictures on the Master Form... I Have used a Slide Rule during College Chemistry Class...Since I Graduated High School in 1972 I was Right on the VERGE of the New World... Men that were in the Class of 1971 were Drafted and Had to Go To Vietnam... but MY Classmates Registered for the Draft but Never were asked to KILL ANYONE... Wonderful!

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Click on the Pictures to See 'em Bigger...

More Funny Pictures. Escape Reality for a While... Jokes!

This very famous shot of the Grateful Dead was taken 55 years ago on May 1st,1967 in my home town of Daly City on corner of Morton and Simpson Drive, looking southeast.

Almost nothing has changed.

The photograph was made at the height of the "American Cultural Revolution" of the 60's. Five people holding mirrors were used reflecting light on their heads were used to create the lit-up looking faces. Actually, this was the second attempt to make the picture. On the first time around, the police stopped the photo shoot and ran them all off!

It was made into a poster and distributed around the country. It had a strong impact, and became an icon of the time and set in the minds of American young people a sense of the movement that was taking place in California.

Photo by rock photographer Bob Seidemann.

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Let's Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half and 

Refund the Wasted Money to the Taxpayers 

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All of this is an Alternative to Watching TV News. It's all so depressing and I've concluded that My Knowing about What they are Talking About is of NO Value in My Life.

Every News Story: "People Far Away From Here Are Behaving Crazy and Therefore Their Lives Suck. Not Only That, But Their Neighbor's Lives Suck TOO."

How Could that Knowledge Possibly be Important to Me? I'm Just Glad that the Crazy People are Far Away! Everything is Pretty Good Here... 

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On the Other Hand... Here are a Few Words about Spicy Indian Food... and Where to GO!

This Lady Loves to TYPE!

and then on FaceBorg SE Said: 

This is an Indian dosa. I don't remember exactly which one I ordered, but the restaurant was vegetarian. I wasn't familiar with any of the choices on the menu, so I decided to be adventurous and just randomly pick one, since I love Indian food. The guy working there said that my choice was a good choice. I wish I could say that I love it, but unfortunately it's way too spicy. I couldn't even finish it because my mouth was burning so much from the spice. I used to love super hot, spicy foods, but lately I find that I don't enjoy when my mouth is burning and my eyes and nose are watering from the spice. But I definitely want to go back there and try a less-spicy dosa. I've had dosas before, and they're awesome. But next time I'll ask them to recommend one which isn't quite so spicy. I can't remember the name of the restaurant, but if any of my local friends are interested in trying it, it's on Lawrence Expwy in the same strip-mall where the Quarter Note and the Indian buffet are...but the Indian buffet looks like it's no longer a buffet, which is unfortunate, because it was the best Indian buffet in town. But anyway...the dosa place is around the corner from the Indian no-longer-a-buffet and down past the Quarter Note at the other end. It's an Indian market with a little vegetarian restaurant connected to it.

Fortunately, I also got butterscotch ice cream at the Indian market. Butterscotch is my favorite flavor, but butterscotch ice cream is hard to find. And now I'm extra glad I got it, because it will help soothe my burning mouth after eating that dosa!

SE SAYS:

I'm a mix of both. I do a lot of stuff alone, not always by choice, but I've never had a lot of friends who are available to do stuff with me on the days/times that I feel like doing stuff. So I often just do stuff alone, but it depends on what I'm doing. I enjoy going alone to art & wine festivals and just wandering around and looking at stuff, listening to music, and otherwise doing whatever I feel like doing without having to worry about what someone else wants to do. But there are other activities which aren't fun alone and need to be shared. That's where I often wish I had a friend who is similarly introverted to myself, so we can get together every now and then to do something, but then spend the rest of our time doing our own thing and recharging. Because recharging is huge with introverts. You see me out and about on weekends, but you probably won't see me during the week because that's when I'm recharging for the following weekend.

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