AN
OPEN LETTER TO AA
EPIDEMIC
OF TELEVISION ADDICTION
This Country is having, by far, the greatest
crisis in our history.
Our government is failing miserably to
govern in the manner specified
By the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution.
The Constitution is in tatters and only
hanging by a few threads.
People in power have violated the
Constitution, without receiving punishment.
We have lost our most precious freedom: Freedom of Speech.
This is due to Dick Cheney’s Patriot Act.
Fourteen years ago President Bush invaded
Iraq. The Constitution specifically
states that only Congress can declare war.
Due to The Patriot Act, however no public official (including the Attorney
General!) has stood up and accused Bush of this violation.
Our values and our critical thinking are grossly impaired as evidenced
by the fact that we elected Bush and Cheney TWICE, and they almost
brought the nation into bankruptcy and alienated every country in the world by
breaking every treaty this country ever signed.
Obama, a political miracle, restored the country’s respect and was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he was inducted into office because of his
respectful attitude towards other nations and he wasn’t George Bush.
It will probably take a civil war to regain
our constitutional rights.
Those who control the government as well as
those who control almost all of the major corporations are sociopaths. Sociopaths cannot change their behavior,
which includes a profound desire to create misery for others. Sociologists have done multiple studies and
estimate that 99% of the misery men have perpetrated on other men have been
executed by sociopaths. Sociopaths comprise 0.9% of every population
on the Planet, and cannot be changed by rational talk. Obama did not understand, and neither did
anyone else except child psychiatrists who had been diagnosing future
sociopaths in infancy for over 3 decades, when he first took office and tried
to negotiate in the manner of his hero, Abraham Lincoln. But fortunately Obama
is a quick study and changed his tactics successfully and managed to trick the
opposition into supporting enhanced benefits for veterans and other
legislation.
Sociologists have done excellent studies
which point to sociopaths as being the source of evil throughout history. Hitler is the 20th century’s model
sociopath. Sociopaths respond to only two stimuli: money and bullets. They have all the money, so our options are
obviously limited in removing their power and emptying their pockets.
Another unexpected crisis has been the
recent scientific research that indicates that burning Fossil Fuels is the sole
cause of Global Warming, which threatens the survival of our species. It is the super-rich sociopaths as well as
the enormous international corporations that benefit from this near-frantic
burning of Fossil Fuels which adds more wealth to their already obscene
riches. Hoarding money in a world in
which 2 billion people are starving or are constantly on the verge of starvation
has no moral or ethical basis. In fact,
it could be considered to be a form of manslaughter. There is a historical precedent for taxing
the rich at a rate that makes a “graduated income tax” a reality. During WWII Roosevelt and Congress taxed the
rich at 95% and they didn’t complain (at least in public). Today’s Global Warming crisis is a much
greater threat than the Axis powers were in WWII.
We have only 1-2 generations in which to stop
using Fossil Fuels and develop sustainable economies.
This effort must be Worldwide !
To make both of these issues even more difficult, we have a
Nation of television addicts (getting to my point) who have experienced a lose
of a sense of what is valuable in life. There has been a loss of critical
thinking. These characteristics were first
predicted by Marshall
Mcluhan in his 1958 book “The Medium Is the Message”. His theory has confirmed by cutting-edge
scientific research in 2003. This arena of biological based behavior is so hot
that the many top notch researchers engaged in furious paced studies do not
even have time to publish professional studies for journals. Besides they are reluctant to devote time to
writing because whatever they write will be out of date by the time it is
published. This is also the reason there are only a very few books written on
the subject. The best are by Peter
Whybrow (and Oxford trained Psychiatrist who spent the last 30 years working
with elite American neurophysiologists and geneticists in California) the
highly acclaimed “American
Mania: When More is Not Enough” in 2005 and the recently published “The Well Tuned Brain:
Neuroscience & the Life Well Lived”, a certain winner for the Nobel
Prize for 2015.
The amount of television viewing that is
responsible for these various aspects of cognitive loss varies from person to
person. Preliminary data, however,
indicates that 4-5 hours per day is enough to pull the viewer into the
heroin-like addictive loop. A rough
estimate is that at least 50% of the adult population is addicted to television,
though the denial of this fact is strong among the well-educated and well-paid
portion of the population.
Denial has always been the biggest barrier
in any addictive process.
It is imperative that AA rapidly develop a
program for television addicts. Such a
program will accelerate the recovery of millions of gifted people. Then their
full cognitive capacity will be available to join in the efforts to battle the
two crises I described above.
It is imperative for AA to develop this
program due to the emergent issues stated above. In addition, the latest data from the Census
Bureau indicates that the hours per day per capita is still increasing in the
United States. We have a big problem
that is getting bigger. Every effort
must be employed to stop this monstrous source of addictive mental illness and
reverse the trend. Ironically, television and other media are essential to
raise the awareness of the television addiction. The needed funds must be found because our
survival as a nation and as a species are at stake. Perhaps the philanthropy of stellar citizens
like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Michael Dell could be enlisted. An all-out
effort by AA is a must if we hope to defeat the sociopaths that are destroying
our Country. It is imperative that it is
brought to the attention of all in our Country that the super-rich are made
that much richer by burning Fossil Fuels in the industrial process that creates
consumer goods (that are also distributed around the world that no one needs !)
I welcome communication with the decision-makers at AA in
order to clarify any issues that may be unclear. As I previously stated : this is the greatest
challenge that we have ever faced as a species. AA can play a large
contribution to the outcome of these challenges that are the greatest we as
American and homo sapiens have ever faced.
Please do not hesitate to call me at 512-586-1626 (and you
may also leave a voice-mail)
Email me at : mcreedonmcvean@gmail.com
Or
Write to me at 12624 Timber Heights Drive Austin
78754.
I thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Morris Creedon-McVean, D.O.
A gentleman and a scholar,
Austin, Texas
July 28, 2015
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