"Eight Ideal Conditions for the Flowering of Autocracy"

In his first argument for the elimination of television, The Mediation of Experience, Mander identifies three fictional works in which the the world becomes autocratic. He compiled a list of rules a dictator might make in order to achieve an autocratic society:
1. Eliminate personal knowledge
2. Eliminate points of comparison
3. Separate people from each other
4. Unify experience, especially encouraging mental experience at the expense of sensory experience.
5. Occupy the mind
6. Encourage drug use
7. Centralize knowledge and information
8. Redefine happiness and the meaning of life in terms of new and increasingly unrooted philosophy

...TV does each of these things...