EH - 50 : Television

This is a long piece, but many of the themes of lemme howdt poetry run throughout the text. Manuel Valenzuela goes deep into post wwII amerikan psyche to describe why dr. lenny no longer focuses attention on the tube. However - discerning valid information from the miasma of the internet is difficult if thought is not previously brought into context.

The genius of the American Establishment, learned after World War II, was in sacrificing a minute piece of the American pie to the growing middle class – that would have previously been greedily kept – in order to maintain the masses in an utter state of comfort, thus creating an environment of silent passivity, complacency and calm, where the masses would have nothing to protest or dissent over.