Monday 10 March 2008

If you want to start a revolution...

...use radio. If you want to suppress a revolution use TV.

Radio forces people to focus, and listen to your words, and engage their imaginations. With TV, people are more focused on the colour of your tie than on what you're saying.

Just heard this on BBC Radio 4 ten minutes ago. I love the Marxist interpretation. TV is the ultimate capitalist plot to foil revolution by feeding the masses an opiate.

3 comments:

Yeshie said...

Why are you blogging at 9:22 a.m. on a Monday morning?!

Anonymous said...

i heard that too. trying to find out where the quotation is from and just found your blog. sounds like marshall mcluhan or similar type... aany ideas?

Radhika said...

love the thought. As Ayush repeats, "TV hurts the eyes. And shuts off your brain.
The spoken words I suppose were the most powerful. Hence the speakers are the leaders