Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman, Another iconoclastic book
That essay from Huxley, from Neil postman along with entertainment as epistemology are to be ringing today.
Not with social media to this day. Some lessons are to be made with how this new technology batters show-business products for the advertiser to reach with a direct response measurement.
I look at all the streams and long tail of live-streaming, and it's all goes down to a slurry of what we would like to call entertainment. Go to apparently reach the top of more amusing than interesting. That is the trouble, boring entertainment, however paradoxical, is laid before us. Where celebrity has overtaken authority on absurd claims.
This has to be the best argument for the age of scepticism for copywriters. Especially the politics chapter. The amusing veil places growing mistrust on the public. Because entertainment is being putting over truth, epistemology, and justice. Such scepticism is used with healthy scepticism. With the internet today, designed for free use and not made for commercial speech.
The excavation of art into a show-business product continues.
The excavation of art into a show-business product continues.