Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury

You’ve read the evidence presented, (unless you’ve been asleep), that these 8 (plus a few other “news sources”)  corporations now control, beyond a reasonable doubt- virtually everything you watch, everything you read, (if you still read, that is) everything you listen to- whether in the virtual world or the real world.
1.) ABC/Disney
2.) AOL/Time/Warner
3.) CBS/Viacom
4.) GE/NBC/Universal
5.) News Corporation
6.) Yahoo!
7.) Microsoft
8.) Google

These large media corporations are aware of the phenomenon of “Social Proof”- witness Exhibit A- the Washington Post’s experiment convincing violin virtuoso Joshua Bell to don street clothes, take his Stradivarius and play a 45 minute subway concert for Washington DC commuters. link for the audio of the full performance

In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were doing to hang around and take in the performance, at least for a minute. Twenty-seven gave money, most of them on the run — for a total of $32 and change. That leaves the 1,070 people who hurried by, oblivious, many only three feet away, few even turning to look.

In other words, most of you won’t stop to recognise beauty, truth, transcendant greatness, virtuosity, etc. unless your peers do, or someone with authority tells you how good they are.

Enter the political arena…

Day after day, week after week, the articles and interviews come out giving more name recognition to the selected candidates of choice. By the time February rolls around the jury is already fixed. These anointed ones are the ones to vote for. Because… their names were kept in front of you for a year, while other names were not.

Who has the power? Who gets the votes? The packaged packages or the virtousi in street clothes? Who do you think? How does that make you feel? Ready to kill your television yet? Ready to stop believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny who bring lead filled crap from China to pacify your kids while they watch the advertainments on the boob tube?

Didn’t think so. Here, have some more crap, instead. But, hey, it’s good crap. Everyone’s buying it. We’re here to sell you so.

Sibel Edmonds? Dennis Kucinich? Ron Paul? Fuggedaboutit! Have some more Britney. Have some more Paris.

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