Friday, September 25, 2015

Caught Up in the Spectacle

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”—Author Neil Postman [More]
It seems like a pretty good time to revisit some words about mass madness.

Say, did you hear what Kim Kardashian tweeted about the Pope?

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