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Something a little backwards about your thought there, Kasi. In regards to TV and media it is not the publics mind that is shaping it's role. Quite opposite. Instead of the public being open to the individual thoughts of (let's say) 100 million people they are instead streaming the thoughts offered by only (lets say) 50 TV channels all cross-wired to run virtually the same programming. This is how things like "Whaaassssss-uppp!" enters the vocab of the public. It didn't start in the streets it started in a boardroom and filtered down. While your right that the public is entrenched to keep a certain group in power, the fault lays with the creator and not the audience. Evidence is the "too much violence in video games" arguement. Agreed, but blaming the kids for playing them... these companies aren't run by 10 year olds! They arn't the one making the game. If you stab someone who is at fault. You or the knife? Who had the intent?
Another good example would be how muddled magick has been made thanks to TV. Raise your hand if you have ever casted a "fireball" (as in big flamey orb produced in palm that lit your curtains on fire). Not many hands went up I would think. If I said, "when was the last time one of us shapechanged fire".... well I would hazard to guess that many of us stepped forward on that. Media has currupted the thought of outcome. Shapeshifting Fire (for those of us who have preformed the feat) isn't as nearly "flash-pow" as movies would make it seem.
As far as voting. Well... there is a major diffrence between accepted outcome and shaped outcome. Voting places the burden on the system of registering, filing and counting and not on the true will of the voter. Otherwise on Nov4th Bush would not have been made president, Jesus would have.
Lastly, with all due respect owed to you, I never questioned subliminal tv sigils. One should remeber the rule of "harm none" and remember that language is a powerful weapon. Your comment may not have been offered with such offense intended but outcome states otherwise. Many would call your remarks (and this rebuttle for that matter) "poor form".