FILMS FOR ACTION

Jerry Mander Has 4 Arguments for the Elimination of TV. Could You Give It Up?

100%

In this brief interview, Jerry Mander, author of "In the Absence of the Sacred" and "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television", describes the drawbacks of television. The reasons might not be what you'd expect.

This is an excerpt from the extended interviews of What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire. 
 

www.whatawaytogomovie.com
Culture   Media   Media Literacy   Social Issues
Social Issues
How to Prevent Future Trumps
The Feminist to Far Right Pipeline Is Sicker Than We Thought
Why Trump Might Actually Be Pushing America to the Brink of Collapse
MAGA: The Great Falling Away Is Here!
MLK: Road to Revolution and the Promised Land
3rd World Christian Nationalist America
Trump’s Hidden Epstein Secrets Are Coming to Light | The Kyle Kulinski Show
When America Went to War Against Black Unity | The Rise of COINTELPRO
The Epstein Files Are Way Worse Than You Think | The Kyle Kulinski Show
"The Problem With Plastic": How Pollution Is Worsening Climate Crisis & Hurting Our Health
Why Tech Billionaires Are Quietly Bankrolling Europe’s Far-right
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever!
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
Muslim in Trump's America (2020)
The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram (2025)
The Myth of Charlie Kirk
Is Trump's ICE Today’s Klan? SHOCKING Connection Between the Most Notorious Racist Mobs
Why National Guard Takeovers Don’t Make Cities Safer | BreakThrough News
Maga T*rror Attack Hits South Carolina | The Kyle Kulinski Show
They're Trying to Kill Us (2023)
The Baldies: Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis (2021)
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence (2022)
Stonewall Uprising (2010)
The Riot Report (trailer)
Why the Left Actually Lost Young Men
Why Facts Don't Change Minds (Goose Explains)
‘K*LL EM ALL!’: Mass Shooting Hits Homeless Camp After Fox Host Called For Violence | Kyle Kulinski
Feels Good Man (trailer)
Why You are Being LIED to About Immigration
No One Is Replacing You (White Genocide Isn't Real)
Learn These 3 Triggers To Navigate Conflict Like an Expert
Holocaust Survivor CONDEMNS Israel's Gaza Holocaust
How Google Broke Google
We Know What To Do | Matthew Cooke
Corporate Landlords Are Taking Over, Making Life Unaffordable: Economist Michael Hudson Explains Why
Viral Chart Exposes Internet Fueled Personality Destruction
Creating Conscious Communities
Patron Documentaries
The Nature of Cities (2010)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Blood and Oil (2008)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Affluenza (1997)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
We Are Many (2020)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Subscribe for $5/mo to watch over 50 patron-exclusive films
Trending Videos Explore All
Trending Articles Explore All
Ecovillages: Experiments in New and Ancient Ways of Living
Explore by Subject
Activism Animal Rights Big Ideas Cities Climate Community Consumerism Corporations Culture Economics Education Empire Environment Food Gender Globalization Health Human Rights Indigeneity Media Media Literacy Permaculture Philosophy Police & Prisons Politics Social Issues Solutions Sustainability Technology The Big Picture Transition Vision War & Peace
Our mission is to support the people and movements creating a more free, regenerative and democratic society. 



Subscribe for $5/mo to support us and watch over 50 patron-exclusive documentaries.

Art by Jessica Perlstein
Share this: