I was brainwashed by the media. I would see some of the people on TV and I really wanted to be like them. Plus even young people can be lonely. I was lonely and I felt like media figures were my friends. It's not good. My mom used to prevent me from watching the Simpsons and I didn't like that and I didn't understand. Now that I'm older, I am glad my mom kept that show away from me. It's an evil show and my mom intuitively knew that and that's why she protected me from its influence when I was at my most vulnerable. If I want to watch it now as an adult that's one thing. But I didn't need to watch that as child. Even as an adult I don't want to watch the Simpsons. None of us are totally immune to brainwashing. The TV programs us on an unconscious level. We all just like to flatter ourselves and pretend we are immune and I simply don't think that's true. And these kids are watching TV and listening to music and copying these people from the entertainment industry. I don't think the kids are the ones who should be blamed. We should be mad at the adults. The adults have sold these kids out and have left them vulnerable to evil influences. They won't take a stand and tell the youth the truth that they need to know about these celebrities that they idolize. This is your son. He is precious. You don't have to feel guilty about being "extreme" in protecting your son. I would be very extreme in protecting my child. It drives me crazy when I saw my nephew being raised by the television. They make the shows "educational" so my sister could feel better. I love my sister but I have to be real. Letting her son be raised by television wasn't about him "not missing out" and being educated. It was about convenience. The TV will educate the child into being zombie and I don't have any channels and I don't want any channels and I don't think I'm missing out at all. I'm glad to hear that your husband is intelligent. I think he's completely right in his assessment of the BBC and I think his anger is a sign of intelligence. Your son is blessed. He has an intelligent, passionate father and he has a mother who loves him.
As a child I wanted to watch rated R movies and play Grand Theft Auto and watch the Simpsons and consume all this media that my mom protected me against. I wanted all that stuff but I respected my mom's authority in the matter. We fought all the time but that was never something we fought over. My friends were so shocked because they were allowed to watch rated R movies but I had never been allowed to watch rated R movies so it didn't really bother me. I was just used to it. Now that I'm older, I love my mom for protecting me against those influences. Not only was she not extreme but I think actually she wasn't extreme enough. I think she felt like you and she didn't want to be "extreme". But we are dealing with a psychological war against us. Look at all the satanic stuff in media. It would be one thing if they were showing rebellious teenagers smoking cigarettes and wearing leather jackets and riding motorcycles. But they're really going so far that they're actually pushing satanism on the youth and all this weird subliminal stuff. Isn't that extreme? They are pushing extreme things and so I think we have to counter with an extremism in an opposite direction. If there is 100 pounds on one end of a scale, then the scale becomes balanced by placing 100 pounds on the opposite end of the scale.
I don't think it's wrong to feel anger. I think anger is an expression of pain. Someone who doesn't care about people isn't going to get angry about the TV being used a tool to brainwash people. It doesn't hurt that person to see other people being brainwashed. But the person who cares will see that other people are being brainwashed and it is painful for them and it worries them.
I deal with anger and my mom deals with it. I think because we both have had to deal with pain. My mom very often doesn't want to think critically about things and so we've directed our anger at each other. It's normal, natural and a sign of intelligence for a person in this world to feel angry. The problem is society's anger gets misdirected. The ordinary people direct their anger at each other. Look at all these street criminals. Pancho Villa, who is loved by generations of my family, and Malcolm X both started out as criminals. They became loved figures when they took their anger and they applied it in a good direction. All these street criminals could be using their anger as fuel to drive them to transform society and make the world a better place. Instead of wasting their energy in pointless, petty conflicts amongst themselves, they could unite against the real enemies and start making changes. This is why people like Malcolm are so dangerous for the powerful. In order to maintain power, the elite has to get rid of people like Malcolm so that- rather than the people applying their legitimate anger in legitimate directions- their anger gets wasted pointlessly in victimizing each other. Common enemies bring people together. Donald Trump really has encouraged unity amongst my family and also among Latinos. Me and my mom might disagree about a lot but I was horrified to see him elected and so was she. So was my brother. So were a lot of people. It's probably the same with Muslims. You might disagree with other Muslims about some things but if you can bring up Donald Trump and suddenly you might find yourselves agreeing with each other. That creates bonding.
So when your husband is bothered and upset when he sees that the BBC is brainwashing people- I think it can really be a bonding experience if you share his frustration and it can be an opportunity for you both to be at each other's side. I don't normally find movies romantic but I remember seeing a zombie movie- I forget if it was 28 Days Later or 28 Weeks Later- where this man and this woman were fighting zombies alongside each other and I was so in love with that woman. If you're being attacked by zombies, I don't think there's anything more attractive than a woman who will fight the zombies right alongside you.
You and your husband could talk critically about the media brainwashing and whatever else is going on in society and then when your son is older the two of you can both sit down and teach him. He'll be glad that his parents are really giving him knowledge rather than some vapid nonsense and he can learn how to think critically so as he gets older and he finds himself around misguided people, he will be capable of thinking for himself and he won't drift from the values you've instilled in him. And if you teach him about how the media brainwashes people then he won't even want to be watching TV all day or anything like that. And if he's grown up without the TV, he won't miss it in the first place. He would be in a home that encourages him to think and develop his mind.
If you take the TV out the home, you would be the mom that I wish I had. It breaks my heart to fly across the country and come to my mom's house and see that the TV is on the whole time and to feel trapped in a zombifying atmosphere. The atmosphere I have tried to describe, I picture as a liberating atmosphere- one where your family can be liberated from the zombifying atmosphere that may predominate in other places.
