Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance.

The line frames mass media as a two-stage apparatus of social control: television performs the broad, passive work of conditioning audiences (“brainwash us all”), while the internet—often celebrated as liberating—finishes the job by eroding the remaining capacity for dissent (“eliminate any last resistance”). Its force comes from inversion: the internet is cast not as a tool of pluralism but as a more pervasive mechanism of surveillance, distraction, and algorithmic persuasion. The quote belongs to a tradition of media skepticism (from propaganda theory to critiques of spectacle), warning that technological progress can deepen conformity unless paired with critical literacy and institutional safeguards.