It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was “not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” The Marxist German playwright devised ... Read more
Our family is staunch opponents of spending leisure time in front of TV! We are one of those who publicly calls TV as "brainwasher". This device is still in our apartment as monitor but not connected to cable provider. What for? After all, we have ... Read more
“Many things are not well understood by us not because our concepts are weak, but because those things lay outside of our concepts” Kozma Prutkov Definition of the term "manipulation" Let us define manipulation as a human control tool that is ... Read more
One of the most wide-spread arguments sound like: “alcohol and tobacco are presented in our life, that’s why they are in cinematograph as well”. Nobody argues with that: everything, that there is in real life, one way or another will reflect in ... Read more
As you probably know, 90% of films contain alcohol-tobacco scenes, which is done for narcotization of the population. When you explain how this works, then in the comments under the articles there are people telling that actors, it turns out, are ... Read more
In my 30 years as a self-improvement coach, the most important insight is that where you put your attention is where your energy goes. If you find that hard to believe, try this: Walk through a crowd. Put your attention on the people. Then walk ... Read more
From the mid of 1990-s in the cinema there was a woman emerged of an unusual type. They were not housewives, not farm workers, not nurses, but aggressive warriors with super-strength and abilities. Such a woman not just "stop a horse at a gallop," ... Read more
A belief in vampires and other undead the more popular, the deeper in a society the crisis of faith in general. Not only the belief in religious traditions, but also in social institutes, faith, strangely, in science. Throughout the last three ... Read more
“We will replace their values with false ones imperceptibly and force them to believe into these false values!” (The plan is by no means Allen Dulles) Recently, the whole information space was shaken by the story of the girls-sadists from ... Read more
One of the actively promoted topics by "Disney" company, which is systematically found in their products, is view of evil as not an unambiguously negative phenomenon. The essence of the "good evil" and the layer of ideas that lies behind this trend ... Read more
Perfect product The patterns of world economic development, statistics, daily news of the media, and widespread drug consumption lead to the thought of a giant transnational corporation that controls the production and consumption of drugs around ... Read more
We enjoy a piece of art. But this is not all. Subconsciously a lot more information goes down the line: a mode of heroes’ behavior, models of human relations, values, and all these leaks out through separate phrases, actions, scenes, not necessarily ... Read more
In order to understand, how movie awards (and awards in general) are being used as a tool of influence on the cinematograph and other spheres of media landscape, it would be nice to introduce several very illustrative examples. Example #1. ... Read more
Teenager's and children's suicides, sudden cruelty of young people, unreasonable murders of people and animals done by high school and university students, - these messages in mass media have been disturbing society plenty of times every year, and ... Read more
Having similar norms of behavior, people in similar situations make similar solutions. It means those who make situations and standards will form the behavior. In fact, this is the absolute power. World conquest goes in two steps. Step 1: ... Read more
In articles of the project What Is Good we mentioned the theory by J. Overtone for a lot of times. This theory explains how, having the mass media out of social control, any idea can become a norm, even if it was unthinkable before. To see the ... Read more
For very many people TV became a «bitter friend», who devours big part of their energy and free time. It is very easy to count a part of life, which is eaten by this «box». Eight hours – it is a third of lifetime – we are sleeping. Another third ... Read more
It has recently appeared several articles disclosing the methodological nature to govern society by mass media. This theory is called Overton window named after its creator. This doctrine in a reasoned manner explained the ways of manipulating ... Read more
You can have a question: why to produce unviable citizens? Why to promote irresponsibility and infantilization? Because only inattentive or not honest people thinking, that infantilization is spreading by itself spontaneously, without any efforts ... Read more
