Yes, good points here. I grew up without tv and was suspicious of it into my twenties, although I married a tv owner and we have one in the house. I remember doing a lot of reading up back in the day that video input is very easy to use for subliminal manipulation. My impression from that reading was that it was only a gentlemen's agreement that stopped it being frankly used for manipulation from the earliest days of tv. I have been told by people who grew up behind the Iron Curtain that the Soviet nomeklatura had developed such conditioning to a fine art pre Berlin Wall.

I think we can date the era when the advertisers stopped paying millions to make tv adverts as the date when that agreement broke down and now I do my best to avoid any video input unless I know the source and am fairly sure it is not being used by a hostile agent. I did watch some of HRH Prince Philip's funeral.

Still, I do get exposed to some of this kind of manipulation from time to time, I can tell this because of meditation, I have been training my mind for a short time, still in first year of regular practice, but it seems this already gives me the ability to see the 'push' left in my mind when I have been exposed to some video media that has a hidden message. It shows up as a kind of 'pushing sensation' in my mind when I am doing my mental review of the day before going to sleep. I think both social media, which is basically an AI which exactly tunes itself to each person's weak spots and impulses, and video media with hostile subliminal manipulation by many potential agents including the usual nation states, are both big forces for evil in today's world, and that both of those play into the craziness around the pandemic.

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