Assume the perspective of media consumer, if you will.
What is revealed is suggestive. Obviously, media usage reflects and reinforces a shallow sense of self-absorption and self-promotion, and the popularity of particular diversions and entertainment arts reinforce this.
These are the representations of reality that appeal to the common imagination, and that provide the supporters of this culture the climate it deserves, for a time.
And, as the historical record indicates, none of it will have any place in the future.
What is never certain is whether it will be replaced by more of the same, or rather by endeavors that demonstrate a leap of vision worthy of human individuality and civilization.
What is revealed is suggestive. Obviously, media usage reflects and reinforces a shallow sense of self-absorption and self-promotion, and the popularity of particular diversions and entertainment arts reinforce this.
These are the representations of reality that appeal to the common imagination, and that provide the supporters of this culture the climate it deserves, for a time.
And, as the historical record indicates, none of it will have any place in the future.
What is never certain is whether it will be replaced by more of the same, or rather by endeavors that demonstrate a leap of vision worthy of human individuality and civilization.
