“God is in the T.V.”
A deleted scene from Jodorowsky’s “Holy Mountain” shows us an altar with a cross made of televisions, at its base, a couple seem to worship it. That was an idea we saw developed a little more in Neil Gaiman’s great novel “American Gods”, where media was turned into a new God due the colossal number of new devotees, and the sacrifices in ”her” name:
“The TV’s the altar. I’m what people are sacrificing to.’
‘What do they sacrifice?’ asked Shadow.
‘Their time, mostly,’ said Lucy. ‘Sometimes each other.”
Nowadays the TV-cross is a technologically outdated but that doesn’t mean that looses its charm. On the contrary, it gains a special classical charisma, just like Jesus Christ in the old wooden cross; We don’t believe a Phone-Cross has the same impact.
For us the media is the ultimate seductress, advertising our most futile dreams and exploiting our weaknesses. We will pray for a new SUV or for the new iPhone and we will kill for it.
The book of Revelation says : “(…) thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison”- Satan was the great deceiver in the book of Genesis and looks like he’s back, folks – Be careful!
Our TVs are full of static, not showing us a clear picture of what is really happening. Unfortunately, disinformation or media manipulation is very common in the present-days- It happens to see people creating an image or argument that favours their particular interests.
We seem to see a crucified messiah in the TV collection and he’s giving us his blessing. At the same time, his feet are wounded, making him a martyr – Everyone loves martyrs.
His head is made by multiple children skulls appealing to your pity and playing with your feelings. The repetition (of the heads) is a common and effective strategy used by advertising to create a sense of familiarity and to have their products stuck in our minds. It is important to note how advertising shape our society — the way we see, think, understand and act.
“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”- Stephen Leacock
The sleeve designs have references to the Big Brother and Orwell’s 1984; and the how TV could affect and conditioning children’s attitudes and development.
As you see Television and Religion are not that different from each other.
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