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If you Want to be Free -- Kill Your TV! by William Norman Grigg People immersed in TV's caricature of reality indulge in a delusional sense of intimacy with people they do not know, and who usually don't exist, at the expense of relationships with the most consequential people in their lives: Parents, children, neighbors. * * * Hello and welcome to Review of the News Online. I'm William Norman Grigg, Senior Editor for The New American magazine -- an affiliated publication of The John Birch Society. Dean Gotcher of the Institute for Authority Research has spent much of his life studying the ways in which "change agents" infiltrate and subvert communities in order to undermine established values. According to Gotcher, one of the most successful tactics used by those cultural revolutionaries is the "dialectic process," in which diverse groups of people, in a facilitated environment, are led to submerge their disagreements in an effort to achieve "consensus." This can be carried out in discussion groups, classroom settings, management seminars, or in many other settings. "The objective of the facilitator is to break down barriers and normal restrictions," observes Gotcher. "The facilitator (sometimes called the change agent) uses the `consensus process' [to] stifle sensible protests. This actually results in `induced paralysis' of the objectors [those who seek to defend conventional social mores and customs]." "Objectors to the process of `consensus' are made to feel like they are `rocking the boat,'" Gotcher continues. "Those who object to the changes are encouraged to alter their standards so that `they can get along with others.' The reason given to get rid of normal standards often is the claim that others are being `offended.'" Beguiled or brow-beaten into sacrificing principles for the sake of social amity, those being fed through the machinery of the "dialectic process" are carefully led through a series of subtle but significant compromises intended ultimately "to remake human nature." In a typical dialectical exercise (such as a management seminar), the opening sortie in this assault is something apparently inconsequential, such as an "ice-breaker" exercise involving a silly game. One example cited by Gotcher was a supposedly innocuous game involving "a papa bull, a mama bull, and a baby bull." Of course, a "mama bull" cannot exist. But for the purposes of the "ice-breaker" routine, participants are required to pretend that such a creature does exist, in order to form smooth and amicable relationships with each other. As Gotcher points out, dialecticians use such "harmless" shared deceptions to lay a crucial predicate: There are no absolutes, reality itself is subjective, and what really matters is conforming to the consensus, the will of the collective. Exercises of this sort, he warns, are being employed in corporate, professional, health care, educational management training, as well as in "outcome-based" educational programs. "Whether promoted by organizations such as the NEA [National Education Association], the local Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, [the] United Nations Education, Science, and Culture Organization (UNESCO), or through grant programs such as Goals 2000 and School to Work, this process is having a direct effect upon all our lives," observes Gotcher. The purpose is to prepare the public mind for the onset of the total state, which would by definition be completely emancipated from all moral and legal restraints. The process described by Gotcher works best in relatively small, intimate settings. But the public at large is also being run through the "dialectic process" through the instrumentality of prime-time television. Gotcher's example of a mythical "mama bull" has a real-life counterpart in the case of the so-called "married couple" that took the $1 million prize in CBS television's Amazing Race. The "couple" in question, who won the round-the-world competition staged in the program, are two homosexual men. The decision to refer to them as "married" was approved at the network's loftiest corporate echelon. After this gesture provoked a smattering of criticism, a CBS executive rebuked the objectors: "They're gay and they're married. What's the problem?" The problem, of course, is that men cannot be "married" to each other anymore than a bull can be a "mama." But just like the small group in the "ice-breaker" exercise described by Gotcher, the vast national audience for Amazing Race was required to be party to the collective falsehood of homosexual "marriage." And it's hardly a coincidence that this took place at a time when serious efforts were underway -- in Vermont, California, Massachusetts, and at the U.S. Supreme Court -- to lay the groundwork for officially recognizing homosexual "marriage." The propaganda prepwork for homosexual "marriage" continues this fall with a sitcom entitled It's All Relative. In that program, the intelligent adult daughter of what is described as "a long-committed gay couple" is determined to marry a coarse, indifferently educated, blue-collar bartender whose church-going parents understandably disdain homosexuality. The Advocate -- a high-gloss homosexual-themed publication -- smugly describes the sitcom as "subtly subversive." "Just presenting a gay couple matter-of-factly might be the most revolutionary thing we're doing," comments co-creator Chuck Ranberg. "You see them in bed together in the first episode, and they kiss each other on the way to work in the second one," adds co-executive producer Neil Meron. "It's just like life." Yep. Just a typical day in the life of two "mama bulls." The "mama bulls" ran rampant on television during the summer of 2003. As The Advocate observed with satisfaction, the boob tube has been "saturated with queer eyes and boys meeting boys." The breakout program last summer was "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Each segment of that program, originally broadcast on the Bravo cable network but eagerly snapped up by NBC, features (in the words of social commentator Steve Sailer) "five witty gay men [who] refine ^ some straight slob's entire look and lifestyle." Often this miraculous makeover was intended to help the hapless heterosexual make a good impression for a woman. This fortifies a propaganda point made incessantly on NBC's Emmy-winning sitcom Will & Grace -- namely, that the homosexual male is the ideal man. This conceit has given birth in the media to a new social category: "Metrosexuals," or men of refinement and taste who, defying all expectations, somehow are not homosexual. To appreciate just how rapid and effective the TV-centric "dialectic process" can be, consider this: Just two years ago, in the aftermath of 9-11, the masculine ideal was defined by the firefighters and rescue workers who heroically perished at Ground Zero, or Todd Beamer and the heroes of United Flight 93. In the typical American home, the television set occupies the center of the living room, as if it were the regnant household deity. People immersed in TV's caricature of reality indulge in a delusional sense of intimacy with people they do not know, and who usually don't exist, at the expense of relationships with the most consequential people in their lives: Parents, children, neighbors. They submit passively to the powers of people skilled in the use of fantasy as a means of re-calibrating public attitudes and values, not just about sex and family life, but also nearly any other significant moral question. This is why the struggle to preserve our traditional culture and restore our freedoms won't gain serious traction until millions of Americans permanently dispose of their television sets. Thank you for listening. Please join us again next time. This has been Review of the News Online from The John Birch Society. For more information about what you can do to preserve our freedoms, call: 1-800-JBS-USA1. 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