Is pretty much the standard in America. Although it's bad everywhere, it's worse in certain areas. This is why it would be hard for me to live to far away from a big university or college - despite all the silliness in that culture.
I wonder, though, as the media becomes more and more intrusive and people get swept up like lemmings into the "society of the spectacle" if we aren't all contributing to this problem...? It seems to me that when you see average, college educated people reading nothing but poop - if they read at all - we sow the seeds for this down the line. Do people read books that challenge them and make them struggle? Or do they read fantasy and sc-fi that enable them to drift and dream like little kids going off to sleep? A culture that is fed on a diet of nothing but escapism breeds this sort of problem.
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Date: 2003-07-06 01:40 pm (UTC)I wonder, though, as the media becomes more and more intrusive and people get swept up like lemmings into the "society of the spectacle" if we aren't all contributing to this problem...? It seems to me that when you see average, college educated people reading nothing but poop - if they read at all - we sow the seeds for this down the line. Do people read books that challenge them and make them struggle? Or do they read fantasy and sc-fi that enable them to drift and dream like little kids going off to sleep? A culture that is fed on a diet of nothing but escapism breeds this sort of problem.