Friday, August 2, 2013

Battering Ram

Marketers use the television as a battering ram in order to beat down the door to the subconscious mind. Once they gain access, they undermine the superego and exploit the hedonistic forces of the id for profit and gain.

The result is an inner emptiness and a spiritual desolation that will turn the human psyche into a devil's playground.

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
                                                                                                         ― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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