The Revolution Will Be Televised…

Macro-sized, Monetized, Objectivized, and Popularized — From The Mountain

The Revolution will be coming to your TV soon. In fact, it's happening now, from war to mass shootings to drive-by shootings to protests of shootings, riots, bodies, and body bags.

Revolution makes money. It IS money. Money in the bank for media and advertisers. Fox News thrives on this, creating entertainment channels pushing false, sensationalist narratives of events for attention… and money. Lots of money.

Advocating for a Revolution

People who call themselves journalists, but who really aren't journalists, on a TV network calling itself a news network, but admitted under oath they really aren't a news network and are simply entertainment… have all become wealthy.

Members of Congress who call themselves Congressional Representatives but really aren't, and Senators who claim to represent their States but really don't, are also grifting the citizens of this country, claiming to work for the rest of us while becoming millionaires in a matter of months.

A majority of those elected advocate for violence, the ability to lie and cheat without recourse, and the ability to manipulate a system that enriches them personally. They, too, are simply entertainers.

Who thought we'd be able to watch a war in real-time on TV? Think about that. Since WWII, the biggest war in Europe can now be viewed as a reality show on TV! If the media could figure out a way to know when and where a mass shooting would take place, they'd be there so you could witness it. And they will have discovered money really does grow on trees.

Why?

Fifty years ago, we'd get an updated body count from the Viet Nam War on the nightly Huntley-Brinkley Report at 6 pm. I remember people found THAT grotesque. Of course, it didn't end the war. People wanted more, and soon we were getting footage filmed earlier from the war.

Today, it's live. You're right there in the passenger seat. Almost as good as all the video games recent generations have grown up with. Who wouldn't enjoy spending hours in the basement involved in mass killings in any number of videos available at the time, any time!

How many thousands of teens are sitting in their parent's basement or their bedroom, the computer on, game controls ready… just choose your weapon and start killing. So real and life-like. So much so that it makes it easy to grab a real gun and pull the trigger. And we all know that at 18 years of age today, it's as easy to purchase a real semi-auto weapon online as it is in a video game.

How cool is that?!

So this 18-year-old thinks to himself, "it'll be so easy to go to a mall, a school, a theatre… so easy to kill others you don't like. You've done it before. Not a big deal. I mean, the video game I played last night was real! I could hear the gunfire, feel the gun as I pulled the trigger, the sounds it made as it fired rapidly into the crowd, and the people screaming and running. No difference I bet from the real thing now."

Television today is borne from and made for all those video-playing generations from the recent past. Now we get to see the death and carnage up close and in real-time. As the reader, you probably believe I'm blaming gamers for mass shootings.

Hardly. Certainly not my intent.

There are millions of kids and adults incentivized to death and killing and maiming today, whether through standard-fare television shows, watching war daily on television, or listening to the results of mass shootings and drive-by shootings on TV. Or, of course, experiencing the same through online gaming.

What is "real" and what is "reality TV" have become entangled in our society. Having a 'President' in the White House who thought running a nation was another reality TV show didn't help.

The Future is Coming

I'm waiting for, in the very near future, Las Vegas and gambling to get involved. Soon they will be setting the odds for wars and mass shootings. Oh yes, believe me, that'll happen. The media and the gaming industry will make money, lots of it, and our very screwed up and confused American society will be all in on this for a shot at the money.

Just imagine waking up in the morning, turning on the TV to find out how the war is going, maybe watching some carnage with breakfast, grabbing a coffee, and placing your bets for the day on your iPhone (will the Ruskies capture all of Donbas?) as you drive to work. Just another day in the burbs.

And I wonder if Fox News or Newsmax will start staking out high schools looking for kids with weapons and then ask if they can have Jesse Waters follow the kid around with a cameraman and broadcast shooting up a school on Fox Live?

Hey, look, one never knows what the loonies at Fox or Newsmax might come up with. The make-believe Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, will be right there in the thick of things, telling anyone who'll listen, "they need to lock the doors and have only one exit/entry. The schools need to be, will be, 'hardened' in Cruz's thinking".

Meh… The Fire Marshall just said that couldn't happen. It's not safe. Cruz is very unhappy with this. He's sure the chances of getting burned should a fire breakout would be much safer than facing an AR-15. But then Ted Cruz is a twit.

Having another lamebrain idea of his shot again down, he headed home to Mexico, the country whose immigrants he despises but whose beaches and tequila he loves.

Get Mad as Hell

The Revolution will be televised because everyone in America has a television, and there is now even more money to be made. Yet, as the Revolution approaches, our society spirals downward, embracing apathy and ignorance, and our government hides behind the curtain with The Great Wizard. There are answers. There is hope.

Society must get mad, very mad. Get Mad as Hell!!! Go to your window tonight and shout as loud as you can, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not taking it anymore!" *

*(Tip'o the Hat to the 1973 movie "Network")

And this Fall, come election time… kick out all elected representatives as possible. In their place, nominate and vote for rugby players. Rinse and repeat every election. We need people in government with leather balls.