One of the indicators of mental illness is the creation of nonsensical words. I do happen to be remarkably healthy both mentally and physically even though I see lies in most government statements. In the past, I coined a term for articles from supposed journalists who were really editorializing. I called the articles "journatorials."

I know this sounds like someone who cleans rest rooms and there are some similarities.

Recently I have watched some TV programs that my 90 year old mother watched so we would have conversation topics that didn't devolve into ugliness. It worked quite well.

But along the way, I started noticing something happening to certain shows. What appeared to be happening was he overt presentation of a political line regarding how people should behave. One of the shows I watched was a forensic show supposedly based on a real character. The show is called "Bones." There isn't a moment of this show that doesn't preach behavior and expectation of behavior by people watching the show. It is a thinly disguised plot based around a behavior that must be altered or changed. The murder is the Mcguffin, in Hitchcock's parlance, that is there only to give the preachy social engineering a platform.

But there are other shows too that do the same thing. These shows are designed to help crate a great, unthinking class of followers who behave in the presented politically correct way. I know television has always been a format where propaganda works well but I resent being preached to by the producers. I don't care if the producers are Libertarians like myself, I don't want to be subtly or not so subtly led to accept a certain point of view of expectation of behavior. So I have come to the point where a new term is nodded and that term is "propatainment." it is propaganda covertly hidden in plot liens dealing with an entirely different subject.

McLuhan hit the nail on the head and unfortunately the power of television is being used against us in ways that most do not even comprehend.

Remember it: "Propatainment."