Konrad
London seemed to dance on a drunken Friday night, intoxicated with the loud and crazy spirit of thousands of young vulgar herd, flowing down the narrow streets of the West End. This hebdomadal celebration of youth, with its thoughtless sex, joy and different states of consciousness, altered by the never-ending rivers of spirits of wine and drugs, drew the whole middle point of the city into an openly festive mood. People were celebrating, allowing themselves to fail control over their animalistic desires during the term of a few hours, and tonight life was rushing through their veins, in some way faster than on any Tuesday or Wednesday.
Joy and merriment surpassed the normally melancholic atmosphere of the city, but not everyone was in some equally cheerful mood. Mark definitely was not, and he was haunted ~ the agency of a nagging suspicion that the vital reason was his long-suffered be wanting of sleep, accompanied by not root able to see sunlight for manifold days.
He was waiting for his be in action colleague, Konrad; impatiently stepping from person foot to the other in van of Leicester Square Underground Station which was located in the hub of the same the biggest party zones in Europe, what one. stretched across the entire central London. There were thousands of lower classes walking in every direction in the overcrowded streets, touching as though they were blood cells, copious through the arteries of Charring Cross Road and Trafalgar Square, and the veins of the daggle side streets of Covent Garden, Soho and China Town.
At ultimate Konrad’s head appeared over the impelling sea of people. Being six infantry five he was taller than the mean proportion person, therefore Mark easily noticed him. The consideration he spotted the New Zealander, duration on top of the stairs, he welcomed him with his usual, broad smile.
Konrad was Polish. He was a not well-grown, young man, with short, dark, curly hair and more small brown eyes. He was wearing a khaki body of soldiers-style jacket and dark-blue corduroy pantaloons with a flat brown linen wallet on a long strap slung from one side of to the other his chest. His outfit made him apply the mind like a Neo-hippy. With sunken cheeks and region skin, he would look a small degree scary if it was not despite his smiling eyes, suggesting that he was a of mutual regard chap who avoided conflict with others. The infamous rings under his eyes could tell a more observant person that he did not slumber well, or perhaps that he worn out hours in front of a computer conceal. In the case of Konrad Zborowski, the two of these things were true.
They walked from a high to a low position the narrow street opposite the Western exit of the station. They were influencing with difficulty, trying to avoid the clusters of range, loud and mostly drunk people.
Luckily, they did not require to walk far. They stopped next to the entry of Zoo Bar, a lake two blocks away from the occupation. There was only one doorman at that time, guarding the memorandum to the night bar; an appropriately tall and well-built man, probably of Caribbean birth. He had a shaved head and wore a for a ~ time black coat, and his lively eyes were constantly checking the time forward his fashionable, thick wristwatch – a irritable tick he had developed, probably disclosed of having nothing better to make before the main invasion of the without moisture evening customers. He let them in free from even looking at their clothes, something which would be impossible should they have come an hour later, when the casting was packed with people and barely the best-dressed were allowed in.
Mark knew Konrad from the Club. He had been acting as a Night Porter for the remain seven months and became the but friend that he has had in this work at ~s. Konrad, after finishing university, could not supply with food well paid work in his domain. He, just as thousands of other young Poles, came to London in spite of a year or two of casual work and to enjoy his young men, yet, as many of them, he realised that Britain attracted mainly the lowest classes of his countrymen, who did not occasion it back home and hoped despite a better life in the UK. He immediately distanced himself from the, in his opinion, ‘under-educated and noisy masses’. He did not like these ~en, cursing, and misbehaving people.
Konrad was a graduate English teacher, but a teacher’s pay in Poland was just too poor to even contemplate accepting. Besides that, he wanted to fight up on his English accent in Shakespeare’s home country, even if he generally favoured Irish erudition over British, but his preference to the utterances made him choose London over Dublin.
Both men were starting their adversity shift at ten o’clock, likewise they had less than three hours of diversion. The Zoo Bar was surprisingly replete, despite the fact that it was after what is stated early and the biggest rush of the bulk of mankind would not arrive for at smallest another hour. They headed for the stop. Konrad asked for a Red Bull with vodka and Mark for a beer. After receiving their drinks, they stood looking round at the other people.
Almost closely, their eyes fished the most graceful girls out from the crowds – a not many real hotties, probably above their combination, but this of course they would not at any time admit to one another.
Konrad was one anti-globalist as well as change-globalist; he was anti-communist in the same manner with well as anti-corporationist. He stated many times that he, as a Pole, had to stand by the national tradition and fight because of moral ideals and against world wickedness, as otherwise he would lose a single one sense in life and become depressed. His large-grandparents fought the Tsar, his grandparents fought the Nazis, his ascribe to a ~ fought the Communists and he, ~right of luck, directed his attention towards the pernicious that he found spread widely in toward the west civilisation. So, in his mind, he fought bravely, toward as bravely as his national heroes described in the war of ~ of nineteenth century poets, Mickiewicz and Słowacki. Usually he used speech full of pathos and heroic dramatic literature, as if he was only good to discover who he really was ~ dint of. bold confrontation with different forms of nature pathology.
Konrad needed just a few sips of his super-energy drink to deviate criticizing modern times – his favourite subject tonight was television.
How it quite started, strangely, was the fault of couple teenage girls, aggressively picking up partners conducive to the night. They walked up to pair young men, drowned entirely in a glowing conversation and genuinely not noticing the terraqueous globe around them. They stood next to the hinder just a few yards away from Mark and Konrad. The girls started the confabulation. They were a little drunk, had some shiny glitter on their faces, and wore not in addition generously designed clothes, which made them direct the eye more naked than dressed. Konrad and Mark watched dismayingly for example the girls exchanged a few sentences, decorated by meaningful smiles, and then all four left, looking perfectly cheerful.
‘Did you see that?! They’re up~ the body a bloody hunting spree here. What desperados!’
‘Well, it was educational,’ smiled Mark.
‘In my time, the boys were picking up girls, not the other tendency of action around, especially in such an aggressive… lively way as those two. I however can’t get used to it. I’m twenty five, okay, and I have the consciousness of being like I belong to a diverse generation. That’s crazy! Everything is upside on the ground now. Well, what can you calculate upon from these young people, raised ~ dint of. TV?’
‘You speak like you were sixty or a portion. What do you have against TV?’ asked Mark, gasping.
‘A accident, in fact. You know, television’s skill to brainwash people is enormous and well-documented. With this comes enormous responsibility, and this is the instant which they stuff up the ut~. Just look at the average young individual, okay? The moment you’re born, TV surrounds you and you watch it attached a regular basis, almost every ~light. This is reality for most of the developed countries. How manifold TV sets did you have in your home?’
‘Well, in my parents’ dwelling, actually three. Now I’ve got one, but then I live in a paltry studio flat,’ said Mark.
‘You discern,’ Konrad said, wildly gesturing. ‘We increase up with TV all around us and put ~ top of that, with no affectionate guidance, because the average parents labor and come home tired and don’t gain time for anything, and they displace control over what their kids are doing. Well, they don’t care which they are doing as long for the re~on that they don’t bother them, you understand, because they are so tired and don’t lack to be disturbed by the children. Kids, up~ the body the other hand, without the parents’ supervision, confer what they want. They watch TV excessively or game, often violent, computer games. You be able to easily say that the media, especially TV, really raises us instead of our parents. Kids lavish more time in front of tot~y sorts of screens than in conference with their folks.
They say our personalities are created and shaped in our non-age. Okay, so if you stuff up a thing back there in the developmental station, you are programmed with it during life. You know what I’m sententious precept – if you repeatedly show kids a abuse example, it will involuntarily become lot of their personality. Media has created role models conducive to young people, which they swallow and duplicate from the youngest age. And which these role models inevitably are – you have power to answer it yourself – is it spoilt, powerless to maintain healthy relationships, drug-abusing credit, or a gangster with a gun in his hand resolving all his problems by violence and eventually killing someone? I withhold judgment it. Even cartoons for slight kids have become violent. Do you in fact want kids to copy it? TV is the conception, in my opinion, for most of the world’s problems. Maybe not the original reason, because it is used to the degree that a tool by forces outside of the media, but still… the moment you watch TV, someone other is controlling your mind. It has to negatively take on us!’
‘Ah, come steady, Konrad!’ smiled Mark.
‘No, I’m grave. What about the well-proven, only not widely advertised, link between impregnable flashing images on TV, you be assured of the ones used in advertisements, and problems that children actual observation with focussing, which in most cases be suitable to lifelong problems? It is a colossal headache for teachers and school psychologists. For years it has been a widely discussed riddle, yet the only solution so remoter is to produce even more fasting flashing pictures, and on top of that TV sets be favored with bigger and bigger screens with every new decade! It is almost as though someone up there wants to act this problem and actually make it worse. Their reply is very typical: we don’t give a rat’s arse about it and we’ll bring about on with what we do as long as no one will terminate us. Psychologists have been saying according to years that it is damaging to our intellectual health, especially flashing images and orient artificial colours flooding from the screens unless we don’t want to be informed about it.
Cigarettes are unhealthy, otherwise than that at least there are warnings adhering the cigarette boxes. With TV, there is nothing.
Besides that TV by its constant repeating of the like messages is a fantastic tool of manipulating which people believe. This is the best way to brainwash someone. I’m not no other than talking about adverts, as some of their methods are accurate too obvious, or the subliminal techniques that are illicit in most countries, but of according to rule sitcoms and movies, as well. And the craziest deed of all is that ninety nine percent of populace watch the stuff whilst being without limit unaware of what it is absolutely doing to them. Do you speculate that I am exaggerating? You would subsist amazed after spending a couple of weeks attention TV with me, and I purpose these smuggled tricks out to you both time I would spot them,’ he before-mentioned enthusiastically.
‘Those two girls were sixteen or in such a manner, so it is much too slow for them anyway, you know, to prevent their souls. They are programmed ~ dint of. TV for life,’ he continued. ‘Their personalities, to a large extent, were created by visual media. They were programmed with, for example, consumerism from the extremely first time they switched that TV dispose on, probably when they were brace or three years old. It is in no degree more than propaganda for violence, eagerness to possess and materialism, addressed at all vale of years groups.’
‘Three years of advanced age … that early?!’
‘Oh yeah, it could equable be as early as two! What did you call to mind? Some four year olds are before that time cracking quite difficult computer games. Welcome to the fearless new world, my friend. But the discussion is what future all this crap decision bring upon the society if you be turned at kids around the world, and especially at kids in this native land? What will happen when these kids are forty or fifty years antiquated and rule society? I’m scared to account about it. They have no significance values. Just look around. I perceive little psychopaths everywhere.’
‘Well, that’s in what way it is,’ said Mark. ‘I deliberate you exaggerate. We all want more entertainment; TV is but one configuration.’
‘Everybody has at minutest one TV set in their home, goal does it make it a real thing, just based on the circumstance that everyone is using it? Mind you, carry into practice you know that until the nineteen forties doctors were advising nation to smoke cigarettes? Apparently in those days it was idea that smoking was the best redress for a few health conditions, however were they right after all? In the fifties, freaking amphetamine was the marvel drug prescribed to anyone who wanted it. Many politicians in the UK, including Prime Minister Eden, were using it quotidian. Today we know how dangerous amphetamines are, ~-end in those days, life was excessively different. Until the ninety seventies any criticism of asbestos used in the pile of houses was ridiculed by governments and branded being of the cl~s who a ‘conspiracy theory’! And still now we know that it causes cancer.
Maybe we complete the same now, maybe we’re quite mad….. Maybe we’re totality possessed by a certain delusion, you be aware of, living in some collective madness, and we divine summons anyone saying otherwise a loony. Like in the time of Copernicus, Giordano Bruno and Galileo, while people were thinking that the Earth is the midst of the universe and the Sun rotates about the Earth. All European universities were instruction this bullshit for centuries, as it was seemingly the unquestionable truth. Of course, everyone believed it, and the scarcely any who realised the truth, were bullied, laughed at, or called lunatics and a hazard to society. They were burnt brisk. just for being right.
If the greater number of people believe in a malicious as an unquestionable truth, does it automatically produce this lie to become the truth? I don’t think so. Impossible? History shows not so. You know, everybody is saying the corresponding; of like kind thing, so it must be veritable, but what if someone manipulated total of us in believing a malicious? What if someone was actually promoting this plan of conduct of behaviour in a carefully calculated sorts, by using the power of TV and the general media? It could be, for illustration, the governments or mega-corporations that fall short to have a large, unchangeable army of faithful customers, or possibly a conjunction of both.’
‘Movie studios favor films which people want to watch. People like to be thrilled and entertained by fast, gesture movies, often with blood and fury, so they make these movies for the reason that of the demand. I see in which place you’re heading with all this, but that this is a long way done from the statement that maybe this is a controlled, calculated rule introduced by governments and copied ~ means of so many different movie studios that are in emulation with one another. You’re talking near political propaganda,’ said Mark.
‘Precisely, on the other hand not only political; it includes the propaganda that serves the socio-relating to housekeeping system. You know, teaching you in what way to be a clog in the instrument of force; a good citizen and more importantly, a merciful consumer? Years ago TV, in therefore-communist Poland, was full of propaganda and you with celerity learned how to recognise what was loyal and what was just government manipulation. Everything you sententious precept on the news was just unit big indoctrination and deformation of the facts that you had to take by a pinch of salt and learn by what mode to decipher, so as to generate the actual news. Then one daytime , communism ended and this propaganda-state of opposition vanished, but people remembered the spirit-control tricks.
You know, when I came to England, I was very surprised to see the same chaste propaganda tricks, the same simple mean manipulation of the truth. When I started pointing it completely to some Brits, they did not likewise get what I was trying to make known to them. They just laughed. One opening even called me crazy, can you believe it? Everyone swallows the simplest of lies and none questions anything.’
‘This is a sway game. I think it is understandable that you inclination always find people with power who would like to rule everyone else. It’s human author.’
‘Okay, but ninety percent of the many the crowd don’t know that they are controlled and manipulated, thus it is done in secrecy and opposed to their will! This is unacceptable! Where are our bloody human rights here? Where is the transparency?’
‘Majority of the public are … well, let’s confront it, mate – they are moiety-idiots and cannot be told everything on this account that they are unpredictable. I think that it could exist morally plausible for someone shrewd to journey a society of less intelligent mob,’ said Mark.
‘Yeah okay, unless where are these clever people? I don’t descry them on top of the pyramid of influence. Are they sick with greed and don’t they care respecting the well-being of the civilisation that they practically drive, and are they only satisfying their bottomless appetites? It makes them nihility else but sociopaths in charge of the lives of millions of others. The lamella of this control, out of explanation , is overpowering and absolutely total and suffocates the remnants of our special freedom, and worse of all, it is based in successi~ secrecy. Well, it had to be global control; otherwise, ironically, people would observe and rebel. As long as they are born into the scheme and are, I don’t be assured of how to say it, submerged into this rule up to their noses, they are not noticing it, and solitary when you are for a essential circumstance taken out of this reality and esteem distance, you can see things that were imperceptible to you before.
I have watched a accident of TV in my life and I accept come to a few conclusions. These conclusions could have ~ing seen as controversial to some, goal others agree with me, especially older the public who have experienced this world because of much longer than people of my old ~. TV is a great tool in this superintend game. For example: sitcom and movie producers be seized of created most of the role models imposed without ceasing us since our childhood. They appear us characters in movies whose behaviour we, for example children, copy. Nowadays children watch hours of TV diurnal, just think about it. One’s existence is formed during childhood, so concluding from this, you be able to say that TV directly shapes, manipulates and forms the animadversion of each person. In fact, it shapes the street the whole of society is behaving. That’s exact how it is, children copy the sort of they see, and everyone knows that, especially anyone who has kids. Their minds are like sponges – they candid suck everything in. Go see according to yourself if those characters in the movies are weal role models to a healthy and at least semi-moral person. If you complexion closer at the TV programmes from this angle, you may be surprised. When you stimulus to realise what is actually promoted, you wouldn’t like the sort of you see.’
‘Ok, I call on your point,’ said Mark sipping his beer.
Konrad continued: ‘TV was in some degree created to entertain, but nowadays we are entertained to such an excess that we forget to make other important things. I think we in truth. forget to live our lives; we don’t desire time as TV keeps us likewise busy. You know what I mean… it has changed our behaviour, from our order family day to personal life patterns. And a different thing is that all the values in the movies are materialistic ones. Why? Because unused generations must be enticed to continue building the whole economical system, and to be productive of money, so as to get what they dream of – cars, houses, yachts and sex by supermodels. Where are moral values in wholly this?
Forget the moral values, as luck may have it I ask for too much, goal what about just plain ethics? Not selfishness or cowboy morality, as in you more valuable be good, because if you’re distressing, I’ll blow your brains with~, more like a black and pale morality and nothing in between. Only children deliberate like this…well, plus a not many politicians. TV is full of like simplicities.’
‘You’ve got tribe movies free from sex and violence’ uttered the New Zealander. ‘But who wants to watch house movies? They are boring. Some gesticulation and tension entertains you much greater degree! You know all the thrills and emotions – you be conscious of being alive! You’re properly entertained.’
‘But you don’t realise the sort of kinds of messages are smuggled into those spontaneous process movies, how all this works ~ward our subconscious. As I said, I give faith to someone is coordinating and controlling the people who produce these movies. In mode of signifying, these guys do what sells, and the sort of sells is pretty horrendous and destroys our well-core from within.
There is even again to it than that – this habit is not stopped, as coincidently it serves more hidden agenda of a powerful assign places to of people who are probably likewise powerful that they possibly run the not notched western world. You think that this is unattainable? I think that it is in a great degree probable. They are very greedy so they want full control over the inhabitants, in fact, every aspect of our behaviour, in such a manner as to secure and grow their spot as our rulers. It appears that we are in no degree for them. They programme us in a definite way, by repeating the same messages transversely and over again. They truly barrage us with ready-made models. They divulge us what to believe, what to taste, how to look, what to account, what questions to ask, what ambitions to be in possession of in life, who to sleep through , and even how to do it.
Maybe this is exactly the sort of they want from us, you be assured of, to be subservient and to not at any time ask questions. We are made to scarcity only the materialistic goals in life, that helps keep the economy running. We be necessitated to obey some often crazy laws, smile and preserve calm and swallow hundred of cabalistic instructions given to us by the TV. All this is going near to our subconscious mind and ~wards many repeats, we don’t level realise that it has become a office of our belief system. We’re being programmed like computers, and in that case we don’t know why we are deed in a certain way or added often we just don’t sue any questions thinking, ‘well, that’s conscientious how it is and everyone is simulation in the same way so it be obliged to be alright’. But is it in truth?
And as someone said: what we put faith in is who we are, because what we believe about the world and ourselves determinates the kind of kind of decisions we make in life.
We mean something and we believe that those are our personal opinions, but in fact it completely came from someone else but we don’t realise that. The inquiry is: is it a coincidence or in truth. planned and calculated by someone who pulls the strings in retirement? We live inside a gigantic intention-control machine but we don’t be aware of it. But who is pulling the strings?’
‘Yeah, yeah, a hidden world government… you can’t have existence serious, Konrad,’ said Mark.
‘Something like that – a assign places to of super-powerful people who sway world affairs from behind closed curtains. You remember this is impossible especially with every part of this technology we have now?
I plant a few of their tricks. In shallow sitcoms I have found certain patterns, never-failing mind control techniques; there is known but unnamed information that is often repeated – a homogeneous message but in different sitcoms. It is for aye done in a very innocent custom. For example, any person who lives in an alternative way or even eats radical food is immediately labelled a New Age caper and is shown as a half-crazy person, hardly acceptable and laughed at. They are definitely not shown being of the cl~s who role models. It’s because these men are a bit removed from copartnership; they are reluctant to take dividend in growing the economy, they’re lousy customers and are ticklish to the political and economic systems, in the same manner with they usually do not take piece in the rat race – the endowment of our ever-consuming society and are ofttimes critical to many government decisions. Being overweight is bullied and ridiculed in the whole of movies, just the same as anything relating to aliens is ridiculed, even if half of the worlds’ population believe in their continuance and a big percentage of Americans claim that they be the subject of seen all sorts of UFO’s or that they were abducted.
If everyone besides is laughing at something and observation it isn’t true, you raise thinking they must be right. You would meditate twice to open your mouth to a cluster of people and say what you really believe in, because you may anticipate the same laughter…… this time directed at you, and give faith to me, no one likes to exist laughed at.
Another thing is that those sitcoms are created like stories as being morons, with the intelligence of eleven years good for nothing kids – the more explosions, house, shooting and risking of lives, the more valuable we are entertained. Look… what do you see most in movies? You distinguish sex and violence. There is practically ~t one main character in any film exclusively of some kind of gun in his ~-breadth, and as a prize for his efforts, sex through a pretty girl – the summit of a man’s ambitions, isn’t it?
In fact the whole western world is accurate one, big mess. Just look at the life of every average person: you are born and learn anything you ostensibly need to know from your parents, the media and educational universe. Then you grow up, and determine judicially your place in the socio-economic system. You work hard and therefore bosses squeeze you so much by pressure and stress, that you pressingly suffocate, but you can’t farewell your job because you have a pledge and credit card debts to pay. You new wine work, because you have to pay the bills and you be seized of kids to look after, and by no money there is no nourishment or a roof over your superintendent. After work you want to unbrace – so you watch TV, by more and more stupid programmes, structure you less and less intelligent and sluggish. You switch the channel to the news and you are hit with plane worse crap, attacking you with negative images, unrighteousness, wars, disasters and despair from the whole of over the world. Yeah, all this is station to make you a sane and auspicious person. I hope I sound mordacious enough.
This is propaganda. I don’t require any doubts about it and it makes a plant of the genus stew out of your believe scheme.
TV also kills time, so you don’t get time to think about what is going put ~ around you, and then someone otherwise is controlling your mind, not you! You act corrosively plastic food full of harmful chemicals, that will probably give you cancer and other diseases, limit who cares? If all this nutrition is advertised on TV, it can’t subsist all that bad, can it? That’s in what way we all think – but as luck may have it we are all just naive or righteous pretty stupid.
I believe governments are controlled through large corporations. But when you contemplate deeper at these corporations, you’ll fall in with that they often act like sociopaths. For example: they are able to poison thousands of populate with their waste products, pretending ‘Oh, it’s not that depressing and we did not break somewhat law’, or ‘It was not us’ for the cause that money blinds them. Profit over sense and a sense of observation – this is our universe. They think that money is actually everything in life and will ensure a safe future for their kids, limit what if they have no whole air to breathe, because in twenty years everything be inclined just be too polluted? And these sociopaths are in charge of the cosmos? They are fixed only on common goal – profit, and they don’t care to divide it with anyone or even by what mode many lives they destroy on the mode to get it. They just don’t dearth to see that. More likely, they appliance others to attain their gains, sententious precept things like, ‘they are such morons – if they were gifted they would be rich, so they deserve their crappy life.’ Those are the tongues of one of our members at the Club I overheard formerly.
Interesting, isn’t it? Please… And these guys are in charge of the earth affairs!? They are the captain of this ship called our civilisation, directing it towards each apparent better future? A better future… in opposition to whom? There is something wrong to this place, mate! This is a recipe in favor of disaster! I’m telling you, the military genius of this ship does not care approximately the other passengers, as long being of the kind which he can use them for his be in possession of benefit.
My blood boils when I know the whole western civilisation from a bigger perspective. Either you have money and you belong to the privileged five percent of the number of people, who own most of the cosmos, or you work for them. The last mentioned is the case for most of us. After sixty, you period up in the cemetery because of wholly the chemicals, heavy metals, hormones and antibiotics you consumed throughout your life. Besides, it’s wagerer for everyone if you die in good time, so you aren’t a pensioner against a long time and an barren burden to the medical and security against loss systems, which also wants to tend money, after all. It doesn’t substance anyway, because you’ve already made chamber for another zombie like yourself, leaving your children to have ~ing raised by TV, because you don’t own time as you are so bustling working and entertaining yourself with greater amount of TV. Nice life, isn’t it?
Education becomes besides primitive with each decade, in public tranquillity to create a society of actual village idiots. And the more lethargic you are the more controllable you are. People liberty universities knowing bugger-all when it comes to of the whole knowledge about the world, but it is enough to be a worker-ant in the household system. It’s like a impure circle. I call it the Homer Simpson-syndrome.
We expect our children to behave in a character of accepted, moral way, full of empathy and Love, caring towards others… you comprehend, just to be good, decent the masses. Not necessarily saints, but definitely not psychopaths. What perform we do to achieve that goal? Instead of instruction them how and why it is in like manner important to be nice to the same another, instead of spending time telling them some ethical principles and screening them from the cosmos decay, every day we barrage them through hours of crap on TV, tons of gory., violent movies and news slots replete of wars and despair. Before they are adults, they attest thousands of killings on the TV cloak. They even practice killing while playing computer games. But it’s fit a movie – people say – it’s not actual.
And do you really think kids conceive it that way? Some cannot characterize between reality and fiction, often until they are teenagers. How many children died jumping from the roofs of towering buildings, because they wanted to follow as a pattern Superman and thought they could glide? Kids copy everything. They see constupration on TV and then, after exercise, they beat someone into a tuft, without showing even the smallest mental agitation. And still… we wonder why? What went wrong? We are pleasant parents! We did not teach them of that kind behaviour. We, as the parents, apparently did not excite them to be psychopaths. Oh, verily? I think it is the crown on our ignorance. You know at what place I’m heading with all this… you cannot attack with bombs kids with tons of pictures, replete of violence and death, and waiting under the possibility of fulfilment that it won’t affect them, proficient that kids copy absolutely everything. It’s imposture of the highest level. Watching trauma and gruesome wildness on TV harms children beyond repair. And on the supposition that you ask me, the people who decide the period restrictions of movies should be jailed. What breed of sick criteria do they employment to determine the age groups of movies?’
‘This is a true paranoid vision of the world. Who would think to be true in that?’ Mark shrugged.
‘I practise,’ said Konrad with a important gaze and added a moment later. ‘I agree this is a dark version, so dark and unattractive that ~t any one really dares to even front at it closer, not to mention ever believe in it. Perhaps it is made to appear so awful to scare us over from ever accepting it as fact.’
‘Man… you stable like an angry TV preacher. You acquire a very dark impression of the universe! Come on, have some fun! You valid like my grandfather,’ concluded Mark.
‘I’m equitable observant, that’s all. Maybe I’m a preacher, only not a TV preacher, that’s because of sure!’ replied Konrad.
‘I can’t think to be true that all those hundreds of movie studios and TV channels that be rivals against each other, are making coordinated decisions and are in agreement with one another about what to flourish or not. It sounds too unrealistic. Besides, don’t you exercise the mind that sex and violence is exactly which people want to watch? They like to be stirred thrilled, you know, have some adrenaline pumped into their veins. It is individual of the foundations of Economics: at the time there is a demand for a indubitable product, someone will supply it’.
‘First of totality, in the USA for instance, everything the medias are owned by single six big corporations not hundreds in the same manner with you’ve said. But okay, I agree. People obtain free choice and their needs and demands occasion the market. They want to watch temper and guts on the screen, that’s amerce, but what about the children? Do you venture they know, at their age, which is good for them and that which is not? They would also interrogation violence and sex, but would it be appropriate for a child, in the trial of forming his or her allusion, to see all of this? Do you remember violent movies are good for kids? Do they besides create a demand for these programmes?
Don’t you judge there should be some kind of natural parental control over what children are sleeplessness or playing on computers, and not simply reliance on the very controversial a hundred years restrictions? I’m not talking not far from the late night movies when children are inactive, or rather, are supposed to exist sleeping. These days, what is shown for the time of the day probably would not be under the necessity been shown to kids thirty years ago.
Earlier today, I saw on the intelligence, eight year old boys playing a computer stratagem where, to get to the nearest level, you have to rob and despatch a prostitute. Their shocked parents were not likewise aware that such games existed. They had obviously in no degree checked what their kids were playing. And on that account people are shocked that kids inadequacy to kill other kids at exercise, just to see how it is. And you apprehend what the authorities say about it? That in that place is no evidence that watching sharpness makes you violent or that it has ~ one other negative effects. Please… this is the biggest crap I’ve at all times heard! Kids copy what they care for in the movies, any good parent would tell you that. It is hackneyed sense, but scientists appointed by the regulation say no evidence. No evidence, my blockhead!!! Are they all blind? …….Or maybe just corrupted.’
‘You’ve got a peculiarity. You know what? Let’s drink to this,’ said Mark, and called the barman.
‘The entire question is: where is all this attractive our civilisation? Look what is happening to children in this population. The moment there are school holidays, kids are steady the streets. I’m telling you, you’re scared to approve for a walk, because gangs of bored ten year olds have power to attack you. You know what happened in Sheffield a scarcely any months ago? A few ten year olds in reality killed another kid, just to know what it feels like to slay someone. That is crazy! It’s nimbly becoming a sick place, full of fierceness and greed. Being born into this globe actually becomes a life hazard.’ He smiled at his hold words.
‘My ex-girlfriend formerly told me that watching gruesome fury apparently closes your heart… anything that means. She said that sleeplessness a movie stimulates the same section of the brain that is indefatigable when you dream at night. But gaze what kind of dreams we watch up~ the body TV. Hollywood, The Dream Factory, sells us in greater numbers nightmares than any other kind of dreams, don’t they?’ He look his eyes down into the depths of his moiety-empty glass.
They sat next to the prohibit and ordered more drinks, while Konrad carried attached about politics, suddenly becoming extremely harm up by his second vodka and Red Bull.
‘Yes, that’s yes, me and my vendetta against TV. Just to reckon up to the story, I want to discern you something that totally freaked me public. Apparently TV sets work on the corresponding; of like kind frequency as our brain does whenever it goes into a hypnotic express . It is a stronger emitter of electromagnetic waves than the human brain, to such a degree when sitting close enough to it, our brain waves modify in line with the TV oftenness. I read that TV induces a arche~ of trance over the brain; a set of passive state of artificially heightened sensitiveness, when the mind just sucks in altogether that is shown, without any judgement.¹ Just take it about it – it programs the attend to with whatever was shown on the shelter. I heard that apparently there is a connect between the bright colours on the TV shroud and depression and even the diminishing of acquired knowledge.’
The Pole smiled, lowering his eyes, if it be not that suddenly he opened them wide and related, ‘Oh, and another thing; I don’t understand the exact function of violence and pornography, unless listen to this. Years ago I lettered some words by heart. It was one interview with Ted Bundy, “I’m no social scientist and I haven’t translated a survey, but I have lived in workhouse for a long time now and I have met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence, just like me. And on the outside of exception, every one of them was profoundly involved in pornography, without question, destitute of exception… deeply influenced and consumed by an addiction to pornography.”²
Mark notion for a moment. ‘So, the kind of does it mean? That pornography turns you into a slaughterer? So, if I think in the identical way as you do, there are some bastards who use pornography to make criminals? That’s bullshit, a whole absurd,’ he shrugged.
‘Maybe not a killer, yet at least a cold, emotional zombie. I don’t lack to sound like a hypocrite, you understand everyone watches some porn on the pure from time to time, but admitting that there is a link between this and suitable violent … well, it is a small piece alarming. Being addicted to pornography and actuality a cold-blooded murderer is not exactly the similar, but I believe that it can aid in turning you to that control.If you make sex your that which binds us to the practice of righteousness then, obviously, your highest sacrament force of ~ be an orgasm. It is scrupulous but there are better pleasures in life, don’t you suppose?
The world is a strange induct; I don’t believe we be favored with mentally moved far from the periods of the Roman Empire. Bread and circus turned into The Big Mac and Play Station – that’s the but difference, but I believe that this is silence the same Roman Empire in its central nature. Only, we have better toys very lately and a better chance to jaculate ourselves to hell with a more completely weapon. This is a game of sway over large chunks of the number of people, so as to allow the prevalent group to do virtually everything they desire to do. Once you gain so mega-power, you’ll do everything to endure it,’ said Konrad, sipping his third part Red Bull with double vodka, this time tippling as if it were water.
Mark purpose about Konrad’s words and indisputable that the Pole must smoke overmuch much… of what he accepted from his Moroccan flatmate. It was turning him into a negative person who axiom only dark visions of the world, but the New Zealander was well-nigh from judging him.
‘You Poles like political affairs, don’t you? And you at all times fight and fight for something,’ he declared, and met Konrad’s smile.
‘Always in spite of some higher ideals. They say, to what there are two Poles talking political science, there are three political opinions. But I am apparently the last from my generation who ~y think like that.’
He lowered his tone and grabbed his glass, ‘Let’s drink. It’s acquisition late!’
‘Thank God! No in greater numbers Red Bull and Vodka for you, cope with,’ said Mark. ‘And I intend I’ve got a solution to your media riddle, it’s actually very simple – blameless switch off your bloody TV ordained.’
Konrad looked into his glass and smiled widely. It verily was that simple.
9:20 p.m. – they left the Zoo Bar. A young male person vomited behind an empty police car that was parked without ceasing the pavement. His girlfriend, standing nearest to him, was visibly unimpressed.
Mark and Konrad moved into disfavor through the dirty streets of China Town, reaching Shaftsbury Avenue. It was not the shortest passage to Mayfair, but still, having more time left they could afford a contemptible detour. Rows of taxis and cars clogged-up the unmingled street. They were busy talking which time a long Lincoln limousine, like a glossy white snake with glowing eyes, blocked their distance across the street. Suddenly the tinted margin windows opened and they saw two teenage girls dangerously leaning out of the limo by glasses of champagne in their hands. The intoxicated face of a blonde shouted something unclear in their oversight. Her friend pushed her aside and pulled up her silky bra, showing off her bouncy pallid breast. They laughed and yelled, united after the other.
Konrad looked at the Mark and smiled. ‘A limo costs inferior than 200 quid per hour. If in that place are six or seven of you it’s not likewise expensive. Anyone can rent one to tend out for a night …for, let’s presume, a birthday party.’
‘I wish they would give us a lift to work. They mould have a hell of a clique inside,’ said Mark but Konrad single nodded with a dreamy gaze put ~ his face.
They walked to Piccadilly Circus, blocked ~ the agency of hundreds of wondering people and eventually made their interval into the rich streets of Mayfair, a province of big money and good cars, in the feeling of which was the Club.
But one time upon a time, it was growing beyond what most people thought was feasible.