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general programming

from kamikaze EP by SLIVER

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General Programming is a term used by the Canadian TV classification system. It is the equivalent of “suitable for all audiences” in the USA. But programming has a second meaning. Programming means conditioning. And thus general programming means brain control and mass alienation. And that is pretty much what television does every day. TV transmits values and messages which become engraved in our minds as we grow up, and these values and messages are in no way original. They are consensual because they are meant to satisfy as many viewers as possible. The result is that girls want to become princesses and models; and boys dream of becoming rock stars or superheroes when in fact most of us will only waste their lives for a salary. But the worst part of it is that we are constantly fed by media. Television feeds us all the time and we have no time left to think and create. Hundreds of channels and 24 hours a day of a screen dream meant to compensate our disappointing lives. No time left to think, to create, to be original and to change our lives the way we would like to. No time left to change our own personal world. Turn it off! Read a book! Think! Get Ideas! Create! And start with these people: Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, Douglas Coupland, Murakami Ryu.

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general programming
suitable for all audiences
general programming
programming stands for conditioning

give me some time now
some time to think
yeah I need
I need some time to think
I NEED SOME TIME TO WAKE UP

general programming
general programming of the nation
general programming
conditioning of all the population

“Old George Orwell got it backward.
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.
He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled.
And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby, 2002.

no time left to use my brain
no time left to wake up and create

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from kamikaze EP, released September 1, 2007
www.myspace.com/slivering

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SLIVER Metz, France

SLIVER were a rocking hardcore band from Belgium/France/Luxembourg.
They've played more than 200 shows in 12 countries (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, the United Kingdom).

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