Posted by
AudiR10TDI on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:08:18 AM
Today is the 25th anniversary of MTV, and I'd like to ring the bell for the attention of all those who stopped reading books more than 25 years ago to go out and get a copy of Brave New World by Aldouis Huxley and read it. If you can't read the whole thing, turn to the back of the book and read the lecture Mustapha Mond gives to John Savage just before the savage goes off to hang himself in despair. Mustapha Mond (and Huxley) lays out the game plan in all its beautiful simplicity and when you look up from that chapter you'll see it all before you.
In order for Communism to succeed, the general population must be kept in perpetual adolescence.
Look around you and you'll see that in places where the culture is focused on those things attractive to teenagers: sex, drugs, liquor, television and movies, and the endless loop of feedback provided by the cell phone (more on that in the next installment), there is no interest in marriage and reproduction and the concommitent ambitions that must be exercised to support the world as it needs to be for adulthood to rule. Europe has become a giant college campus where Mom and Dad pay the bills and all Jasmine and AntJuan have to do is party.
And it's all right there in Brave New World.
MTV teaches them how to live the way their masters need them to live in order to keep them under control. Do you notice that most of the pre-programmed chants have fewer than seven words and most of the longer ones rhyme? That's because things you can yell in unison are attractive to teenagers. And of course the other thing is that they're easy to teach.
What's the one thing teenagers found their lives on? "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!" That is, in order for teenagers to rule, they msut be encouraged to do the precise opposite of what would be in their best interest, and to believe that this is not a destructive path to the grave but is a triumph of independence.
And that is what MTV does. MTV makes inanity, inactivity and death a song of triumph against those who want to be The Boss Of You, and by doing that they become in fact The Boss Of You.
Every step on the spiraling path to extinction is made to the cry of YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME and every time you buy into that you hasten your own doom.
Mom and Dad, listen up. Go to the mirror and look at yourself. Do you see a Mom or a Dad in that mirror? Or do you see a caricature of a character from television? Are you trying to pretend you are one of those people you despair of your children becoming? Is your fond wish to be attractive to your son's or daughter's friends? Are you frightened of Being The Boss Of Them?
Mom and Dad, it's time to clean up your act. They Can't Win If You Grow Up.
So wash your face, comb your hair (and remember that green, orange and blue are not the hair colours of Mom and Dad), cover up your breasts, your belly button and your butt, and take charge of your life and of your home.
MTV can't win if the adults realize they are in fact The Boss of their kids and if they respond to the perpetual crying with the firm reply, "Yes, I am in fact the boss of you and you will do as I say or you will get out of my house. Period. No buts."
My Ukranian Communist ex-brother-in-law used to complain that America couldn't be brought to a communist revolt because "America has no proletariat." MTV and socialism teach that the only important things in life are those things important to teenagers, and that taking up the responsibilities of adulthood is Letting Them Be The Boss Of You.
Yes, they are after you. Yes you can stop them. And it's easy and you can do it starting now.
Grow Up.
Do it today.
And start by getting a copy of Brave New World. It's all right there for you and it's not hard to fight back. Just do it. And start today.