Consider This A Dropped Jewel

"Have we ever taken time to step back and stepout of our 'normal' minds for a minute, and look at the madness that exists around us? Have we ever stopped for a moment and noted the madness that motivates us to jam into these subways every morning; that motivates us to work endlessly and compulsively; that motivates us to feel guilty in a moment of leisure; that motivates us to consume endlessly; that motivates us to be the victims of all kinds of erratic fashions? Have we seen the craziness that peers out at us from our television screens? Have we recognized that the television screen projects little reality at all? That we measure ourselves against what we look at there! That TV advertising is designed to keep us in a state of frustration and dissatisfaction, and designed to inculcate in us a sense of inferiority, and designed to keep us from facing reality and confronting the truth, to divert us from the pitifulness of our situation!; to not let us recognize as a people that we are in a precarious situation, and that our very biological survival is in question. We sit in front of the TV set and look at those little families whose members are so polite to each other, who are so witty,who wait for each other to get through speaking before speaking themselves, who lay in just the right line at just the right time, and who resolve their problems so neatly and beautifully, and assume that they represent the typical family." -From, "The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness" By: Amos Wilson