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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mjm2005: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Gordon Bennett: [qb] Not even perfect? :rolleyes: [QUOTE]Originally posted by mjm2005: [qb] I'm not saying that Bush is a wonderful or even perfect president... [/qb][/QUOTE][/qb][/QUOTE]Listen, Gordon...Read "Amusing Ourselves to Death"... Everyone's worst fears about 1984 and "big brother" aren't going to happen... we (as a people) are destroying this country... Better yet, here's a link for you, so you don't have to even read the whole book... http://www.gyford.com/phil/notes/2004/09/26/amusing_ourselves_.php Orwell, 1984: What we hate will kill us. Huxley, Brave New World: What we love will kill us. This book is about the latter. "We have reached, I believe, a critical mass in that electronic media have decisively and irreversibly changed the character of our symbolic environment. We are now a culture whose information, ideas and epistemology are given form by television, not by the printed word.” Just because TV and print coexist, doesn’t mean there is parity — “print is now merely a residual epistemology."" "TV News is bad because segments are short and shallow, anchors are required to appear believable, they use music, they have commercials" [b]"People have opinions about events but, these days, know little background. More rightly “emotions” rather than “opinions”."[/b] [b]9. Reach Out and Elect Someone 127-8 Capitalism requires rationality. Adverts were once propositions that could be true or false. Now they appeal to emotions — can’t be tested, not rational. 132 Politicians have gradually become “celebrities”, appearing on TV not just as political figures (on game shows, commercials, dramas), from 1950s, exploding in 1980s. 136-7 TV provides little context and therefore no history. Continual present. 138-41 Orwell envisaged the government controlling information. But it is more like Huxley. Orwell was more accurate for an age of print where banning books had more impact. Now, despite outcries, it has little effect. Television doesn’t ban books; it displaces them. We have the opposite of censorship — too much TV, but all of the TV is simplistic and noncontextual.[/b] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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