As man left the rural landscape for the crowded city, he left his family and friends for the new industrial world being created all around him. The twentieth century saw modern man being dazzled by the sights and sounds of The City. In the ancient world only one or two cities were needed to build an empire. The United States a nation of large cities is still unlike other developed and third world countries. Although heading into the 21st century the United States is experiencing the decline of industrialization and the quickly integration of high technology in the information age. Industrialization is the utilization of the machine by the human being. Early industry saw many humans adapt crude machinery for almost every purpose. But the information or computer age has quickly been only realized by wealthy capitalists to eliminate laborers and is being used to bring human beings under the control of the autocratic elements in the united states empire of economic evil.
Industrialization does not only imply the modernization of machinery. Man has also become industrialized.The constant overproduction of agriculture has caused man's diet to be industrialized with unhealthy amounts of animal protein. Industrialization has allowed man to reproduce quickly.In 1820 1 billion people were on the world, 1929 2 billion, 1956 3 billion. All these people in so little time. Man's reproduction rate is the Miracle and menace of industrialization. Man is the biological machine. Television programming tells man what to think. Because man is the machine society feels the need to program him like a computer. Mass media has helped to fill the void in man's industrial existence.Mass media educates his children , tells him what kind of car and food he should enjoy, the stylish items that will make man be accepted by other well to do currency earners.
Mass media has evolved along side the corporation since the late 1890's.The daily newspaper would be A product of the large urban centers that man had found himself living in. Before the radio and television This newsprint had become a part of man's diet. Although literature like a food based diet could be classified into pulp: sensational stories, junk and fiction or intellectual: like science or classic literature, good brain food The newspaper then up until after WWII was a steady part of man's intellectual diet.In 1922 the BBC began Radio broadcasts, and in 1925 Television is first demonstrated and by 1936 the BBC is making regular television broadcasts. In 1941 the first television commercial makes a television appearance.
As any self aware individual can discern the mass media of television radio and newsprint is almost 100% commercialized. The wasteland of perfect people propaganda and the reality of the disappearance of privacy are but some of the ills of that form of entertainment. Where people can not be shocked because they have seen human beings do all sorts of bizarre behavior where violence and sexual content is normal viewing fare
Information is a powerful tool to a thinking man. Today in 2004 to keep up with the amount of information being presented in the televised news can be overwhelming. The anchorperson is telling you stuff, then a onsite Reporter halfway across the world gives you real time information, Back to the studio the scrolling screen makes your eyes spin around in your head as she keeps on saying all this crap about people you are never gonna see and a bunch of other terror driven violence you should be worried about.
Now we will compare the front page of the newspaper in 1941 with a newspaper in 2004. Has peoples eyesight generally gone bad? No you say! Then why has the number of articles shrunk dramatically? People must need to know less now? Or there is less to report about? No you say again! Well the USA of today must becoming similar to George Orwells 1984Or I feel a lot worse!
1941 2004
Who chooses the content of the news we read? Why has not the total Iraqi death toll been highly publicized in the USA? Propaganda is the answer to both of those questions. The current domestic and world events chosen to be news is carefully crafted to create public opinion. If you are American you have no opinion. Because you are rigidly educated to see dimensional moral and physical conflicts in a "black or white" perspective. If you were a human being then you would understand that life appears or exists in shades of gray. The naive concept of "good and evil" is for children.
Whatever you believe is pretty much up to you! But I have taken the Slow and rewarding task of restoring several old newspaper front pages and some other interesting articles in digital format. Using an 8 by 11 scanner to assemble crumbling articles in the Microsoft paint program is a very tedious task. One page is from 1941 before The USA entered WWII. There is strong anti-war sentiment from all angles. And even a mention of censorship about the delay of news from the eastern front. The other is from 1943 After the USA entered the War and shows US propaganda, the Registration draft, Cartoons that encourage people to support the war. Feel free to examine and download!
Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, Sunday, 8-17-1941 : Front Page Page Two
Daily Citizen Ambridge, PA, Feb., Friday the 13th, 1942: Front Page Propaganda Political Cartoons Crime Fri the 13th
Beaver County Times Sunday 7-18-2004: Front Page Moral Digression
The third article of the 7-18-2004 Times details the fast-paced life of Americans. Or the moral digression thereof. This article even details the decrease of national Sunday newspaper circulation if not to prove my point.A recent study published by the USA today has stated that Newspaper circulation has declined since the 1980's .Throughout history leaders & governments have created opinions for populations to secure a power or control the mass of people & increasingly since the Republican Adminstration of the 1980's and now the 21st century Information is created to present a state of fear and confusion which encourages people to give up civil rights in the process of expanding the military's control of the government.
