'Numerous institutions, traditions and prejudices function as modes of oppression and prevent us from collectively addressing the tragedy of the commons. Acts of legislation arbitrarily prohibit and criminalize our actions, schools indoctrinate us with a tacit deference to authority, and our interpersonal relationships are prone to crystalizing vicious spirals of interaction. Taken as a whole, they manufacture a society in which worldviews are intentionally constrained, warped, and self-defeating.
In a world where soldiers laugh after murdering children, a president brands war as peace, a ‘recovered hero’ resurrects his father to try to sell shoes, and crucial scientific reviews are hollow whitewashes, we’re obviously in need of a new set of values. And one the most effective means of preventing us from collectively making these changes is our addiction to TV.'
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