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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman • 2 highlights
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Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Here we see a really pivotal moment of change, when art must become something that does not make people uncomfortable, so that they will spend money. The kind of person who is expected to consume art is transformed in the mind of the producer. The people who might very possibly love being expanded by what they see are never given the chance.
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From an interview between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace in 1996.
DFW: Oh—the reason why I think you oughta do a book about TV, is this problem is not gonna go away. I don’t know about you, but in ten or fifteen years, we’re gonna have virtual reality pornography. Now, if I don’t develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure
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