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RE: Are We Headed Towards 1984 or Will We Just Amuse Ourselves to Death? An Analysis of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Life

in #philosophy8 years ago

It's a story as old as mankind itself..."Bread & Circuses" my friend...As long as there's the NFL!!! I've wondered for decades why media...particularly the medium of television that has the opportunity to create the most educated populace on Earth- gives us drivel that declines in intellectual quality. Then I figured it out- it's just part of the plan!

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Part of the plan - absolutely - tell them they like drivel, served with drivel and they will become drivelists.

Because it's profitable.

And I'm not anti market economy, anti-capitalism, but it is what it is. What gets sold is what ends up being bought.

And it's the consumers who are responsible in the end.