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Have millions of friends. Run and do other outdoor sports like hiking or surfing. Defend the environment and everything that lives there. Study and work hard until you are almost forty. Get the last gadgets technology has to offer, even though the ones you have perfectly work. Today, that is how everyone is expected to behave. But, where does this behavior come from? Are people environmentically determined to act like this? Is it nature or are there other forces that tell people what to do in specific circumstances?

Well, let me tell you it is not nature the one making us behave like this. It is mass communication. Television, films and newspapers among others are constantly yelling at people what they have to consider as important. Television and films are always showing lifestyles people want to mimic, so that their lives are intended to be as similar to their favorite characters’ as possible. People are distracted from real problems and obsessed with these tales projected on their screens.

But, people are also told how to live because all what’s shown in television and films is biased.  Information is shaped according to a superior ideology that guides people’s behavior and makes them share the same interests. If television didn’t transmit its concern about the environment, would people care about it by their own? The obvious answer is no. Or would people want the last gadgets launched? No, once again, no.

Television, films and the newspapers guide people through life, telling them what choices they have to make. What they have to buy and believe. So, it makes us all puppets commanded by a superior force we are exposed to everyday. The worst of all is we can’t avoid it. Media is so powerful, there is no way to resist it. Has it ever crossed your mind the idea of not following this pre-shaped road? Getting free of the hands slipping in our brains? I bet it has. But can we do something to avoid it? I bet we can’t. We need more people to get rid of this conventionalism, to realize we can’t let media control us. We have the right to decide what to do with our lives, not exposed to this polluted source of pre-conceived lifestyles. So, this is what we will do. Turn the television off and burn every newspaper. But most importantly, live the film of your lives.