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Television, The Drug Of The Nation

sjem © sjem © 224 posts

Here are the lyrics to little song that old Lucan has opened up as a challenge. I have, without his permission, now made it the first official Agent Provocateur group challenge.

See his entry

Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy – Television, The Drug Of The Nation

One Nation under God
has turned into
One Nation under the influence
of one drug

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., I.T. satellite links
our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
the methadone metronome pumping out
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

T.V. is
the stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
are chased by Grecian Formula’d
bald eagles

T.V. is mechanized politic’s
remote control over the masses
co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special

It’s the perpetuation of the two party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
the fastfood culture

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 . . .

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

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
armchair generals and quarterbacks can
experience first hand
the excitement of video warfare
as the theme song is sung in the background

Sugar sweet sitcoms
that leave us with a bad actor taste while
pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the only cola that I support
would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allownace)
On Television.

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

Back again, “New and Improved”,
we return to our irregularly programmed schedule
hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commericals

CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.
Where oxymoronic language like
“virtually spotless” “fresh frozen”
“light yet filling” and “military intelligence”
have become standard

T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like “recession” to “necessary downturn”
“crude oil” on a beach to “mousse”
“Civilian death” to “collateral damages”
and being killed by your own Army
is now called “friendly fire”

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 . . .

hatefueled hatefueled 426 posts

1, lol at another song incinuating that ameria IS the world like the rest is just a 3rd world charity…
2. should these challanges be called missions? should we choose to accept them? hehe
aaand 3. does it have to be abt that song or is it the tv brainwashing theme? lile system of a down? can you say brain waaashing b-b-b-b-aaaainwaaashiiiing! :D

Lucan Industries (© misterkhan 1995) Lucan Industri... 42 posts

Hey this was unpopular wasn’t it? You should ask Danny next time.

Basically any track that has ‘cathode ray nipple’ as a lyric is fine by me.

Scott Robinson Scott Robinson 421 posts

Danny and I are working on a little something for this… Just trying to find the time to do it.

Lucan Industries (© misterkhan 1995) Lucan Industri... 42 posts

Oh good show. Very exciting.
Yes, time’s a tricky commodity.

betelnut betelnut 67 posts

Can’t get past this really.

Danny Danny 343 posts

Hey that’s Unsane betelnut
Sorry Lucan forgot to tell you it was a good idea.

Lucan Industries (© misterkhan 1995) Lucan Industri... 42 posts

This has produced some rather good work in the end hasn’t it? I mean, hang on that isn’t really a question. It has produced some good work. Fin.

Cathie Tranent Cathie Tranent 1447 posts

Oops – think you’d better unfin this one!!

Lucan Industries (© misterkhan 1995) Lucan Industri... 42 posts

We need to do something to excite the kids.
But something easy because the kids are lazy.

Ideas?

betelnut betelnut 67 posts

They are too busy playing emo, Grandpa Lucan.

Spice Girls Greatest Hits – No1 Album in Aus at the moment. No hope…

Scott Robinson Scott Robinson 421 posts

Hmmm… Kids these days eh?
Bugger easy, lets make it challenging as all hell.

Cathie Tranent Cathie Tranent 1447 posts

@ betelnut. Lordy that’s enough to make one hand back one’s citizenship. The worst part. I was born here.

@ Scott … be nice …. ah what the hell – be as hard as you like – I’m not up to it anyway!! :)

Scott Robinson Scott Robinson 421 posts

yeah, Maybe that was a bit harsh..
I`ll put it like this then, let all challenge ourselves, in the name of rising to a challenge.

Danny Danny 343 posts

sjem how do you keep coming up with these marvelous challenges?
:)

Lucan Industries (© misterkhan 1995) Lucan Industri... 42 posts

He’s a genius isn’t he. A GENIUS I TELL THEE.