Subconscious War
Subconscious Warfare is a short documentary that describes the influence of media and a culture of violence on everyday life and the development of common principles in society. Film analyzes the work of Aldous Huxley and Neil Postman’s desperate judgment; compares ideas from tracks like “Brave New World” and “Entertainment to Death” with the promotion of corporate media saturation, gaming, TV and more Broadly linked to contemporary cultural values of technological culture.
In Brave New World, most people are united under one world-state, a perpetual, serene, stable world society in which there are many (numbers are constantly controlled) and everyone is content. In order to keep up with the pace of the world economy, everyone has been educated to pay attention to consumption since childhood, because continuous consumption and universal employment are the basis of world economic and social balance.
Being alone is considered a shameful waste of resources, and wanting to be alone is terrible. Society pushes people to encourage consumption and never enjoy personal life. People die at 60 and stay healthy for life. No one is afraid of death; think about it, rest assured that what matters is that society moves forward. Birth is artificial, and no one has a family, so they have no family to mourn.
In “Amusing Yourself to Death,” Postman argues that the mass media are incapable of sharing serious ideas. Since television has practically replaced the written word, television has replaced serious issues with insulting and subversive political dialogue, turning important and complex issues into deeply gimmicky images…it’s just entertainment. Television cannot provide education because it only supports the one-way flow of information, not the interaction necessary for proper learning.
