Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

by Jerry Mander

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Belly of the Beast
• War to Control the Unity Machine
• The Walling of Awareness
• Expropriation of Knowledge
• Adrift in Mental Space
• Advertising: The Standard-Gauge Railway
• The Centralization of Control
• Anecdotal Reports: Sick, Crazy, Mesmerized
• The Ingestion of Artificial Light
• How Television Dims the Mind
• How We Turn into Our Images
• The Replacement of Human: Images by Television
• Information Loss
• Images Disconnected from Source
• Artificial Unusualness
• The Pieces That Fall Through The Filter
• Television Taboo
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography.