Almost everyone, even the very poor, has a TV at home. Billions of people watch TV regularly. The secret of such a rapid spread of this means of information is as follows: firstly, TV programs are the easiest to perceive (a book, a newspaper require a minimum of literacy); secondly, they create the effect of personal presence at an event; thirdly, according to psychologists, up to 40% of all sensory information about the surrounding world, about oneself, a person receives through sight. The visual series usually does not require verbal or written description. The information received by the viewer is largely holistic, figurative in nature, and therefore quite accessible. Television allows, through advertising, to shape not only the tastes and needs of the population, but also its attitude to all political problems. The elite knows this and actively uses television to level consciousness in accordance with its standards.
The appeal of television information is primarily associated with the illusion of personal participation, presence at an event. People have become accustomed to sitting in a comfortable chair at home, watching programs where politicians of all stripes discuss the future of countries, regions, develop various thoughts, ideas, but within the framework of bourgeois democracy, that is, beneficial to some extremely insignificant part of the earthlings – the oligarchs. Television has brought the whole world closer to people, made accessible what seemed fantastic just a few decades ago. In other words, television as a powerful mass medium has given people the opportunity to directly see events, "be on the spot" of the event, empathize with their participants in the dramatic, tragic collisions of human existence. However, this opportunity to inform the masses is used in a society of pure gain purely in the political interests of the ruling classes, commercial advertising and acts as one of the leading instruments of spiritual manipulation of the consciousness of the masses.
The methods of this manipulation are quite simple, but quite effective. A significant part of modern television programs, as well as other media: the Internet, radio stations, all kinds of mobile applications, etc., which are under the powerful control of oligarchic groups, headed by the secret services, are of an entertaining nature and are mainly designed for emotional perception. Therefore, program directors place special emphasis on manipulating illusions: promoting the possibility of getting rich, making good money, achieving unexpected success. This is done not only with the help of films, commercials, but also carefully selected documentaries. With the help of this “dream machine”, illusions occupy an important place in a person’s thinking, creating an ephemeral idea of the society in which the viewer lives: a society of supposedly “equal opportunities”, truly “free” and “open”. Disappointed, often disadvantaged people cling to the illusory idea of “prosperity” as a last hope to escape from need and despair. These techniques are designed to create more and more new myths about the modern world of pure profit – capitalism, in a new “sparkling” package, which has allegedly not exhausted its potential resources. Hired ideologists and servants of oligarchs have created a special pseudo-culture, where astrologers, religious and political "truth-tellers" constantly appear, "foaming at the mouth" proving or refuting something, but this is nothing more than shaking the air, calculated to stupefy the masses, to dull their public consciousness. And this "stupefaction" is carried out to a large extent with the help of television.