Lunatics started pretending cathode ray tube radiation that went through anyone who watched the new technology called Television, was the equivalent of a "magic spell" after it was released as commercially available to the public in the very late 1940's.

It was partially a diversionary product of panicked compulsive liars, with plenty of information from WW2 to conceal, being allowed to broadcast anything they wanted on the new medium, by erecting a transmitter and picking an unused frequency. Barely even regulated at the time.

From what it was, a new technology akin to radio with pictures, to a mesmerizing form of hypnotism where the viewers real ancestral memories got replaced with any lie repeatedly broadcast on the Television? No, but try convincing lunatics now that it is never going to work.

A certain person called Adolf H ...