DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY
TELEVISION, THE DRUG OF THE NATION
Este livro teve origem num projecto académico onde, com base numa letra de uma música de hip hop, se proclama uma crítica relativa à televisão como meio de comunicação com as massas.
"Usar o meio para criticar o meio" é o objectivo da música e por consequência o objectivo deste projecto também. Utilizando as páginas como "canais" de televisão pretende-se realizar uma espécie de zapping de informação onde nunca se sabe exactamente o que vem a seguir.
Esta é uma maneira de reflectir naquilo que absorvemos a partir dos meios de comunicação e quais as consequências no comportamento e valores humanos.
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This book was originated in an academic project which, based on the lyrics of a hip hop song, proclaims itself as a criticism related to the television as a mean of communication with the masses.
"Use the medium to critic the medium" is the aim of this song and therefore the aim of this project as well. Using the pages as "channels" of television it is intended to perform a kind of zapping where you never know exactly what comes next.
This is a way to reflect on what we absorb from the media and the consequences on the human behavior and values.
"One Nation under God
Has turned into
One Nation under the influence
Of one drug
T. V., it satellite links
Our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
A 150 channels 24 hours a day
You can flip through all of them
And still there's nothing worth watching
T. V. Is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
Means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
And Apartheid is a new headache remedy
Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
Maybe the mother of our Nation
Should remind us
That we're sitting to close to. ..
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(...)
Has turned into
One Nation under the influence
Of one drug
T. V., it satellite links
Our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
A 150 channels 24 hours a day
You can flip through all of them
And still there's nothing worth watching
T. V. Is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
Means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
And Apartheid is a new headache remedy
Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
Maybe the mother of our Nation
Should remind us
That we're sitting to close to. ..
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(...)
Where straight teeth in your mouth
Are more important than the words
That come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on. ..
T. V. Is it the reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
Twelve years old and we wonder how we've created
A Jason generation that learns to laugh
Rather than abhor the horror
(...)
T. V. Is the place where the pursuit
Of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
By a cathode ray nipple
T. V. Is the only wet nurse
That would create a cripple
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television..."
