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Entertaining to Death: The Age of Media in Pursuit of Appearance, Laughter, and Passion
Entertaining to Death: The Age of Media in Pursuit of Appearance, Laughter, and Passion
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Serious thinking is a thing of the past, whether we who are facing entertainment and passion will be destroyed by what we love.
In "Nineteen Eighty-Four" Orwell feared the banning of books, fearing that we would be culturally clamped down, but Huxley's "Brave New World" feared that there would be no reason to ban books, because no one wanted to read books anymore. From today's perspective, Orwell's prediction was wrong, but Huxley's prediction is happening...
Today, with the development of information, what politicians seek is not logical political opinions, but personal charm; what news seeks is not professionalism and truth, but sadness and entertainment. Since the emergence of telegraph, news, television, Internet and other communication media, the way of carrying knowledge that has been used for thousands of years has been broken in a hundred years.
What has changed is not only the medium for obtaining information, but also the structure of knowledge, which has led to changes in human thinking methods and behaviors. No one wants to read long speeches, but short slogans or exaggerated epigrams can move people's hearts. This is not the result of the birth of the Internet and Facebook, but what news headlines and TV programs have taught us over the past century.
Abandoning the logical speculation presented by the written word in the past, we become easier to decide, but also more rash. We are exposed to more information, but the proportion of useless information is higher. It is a way of seeking knowledge without questioning, and no one is spared. Then, the computer and network community attract our attention day and night in the 21st century, from the way of thinking to the habits of life. When media is everywhere and entertainment is everywhere, we may be destroyed by what we love.
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