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@meekon5 That Orwell / Huxley chart is very interesting. The powers that be are using both sides and both strategies in my estimation (and a lot more). As a side note; I have read both books (Brave New World and 1984) and I wish they would be required reading for everyone, at least while in high school.
I've read and re-read them countless times...they scare me more now than when I first opened them!
Quote from: DigitalBuddha on January 21, 2012, 06:41:45 PM@meekon5 That Orwell / Huxley chart is very interesting. The powers that be are using both sides and both strategies in my estimation (and a lot more). As a side note; I have read both books (Brave New World and 1984) and I wish they would be required reading for everyone, at least while in high school.Quote from: Caesar dude on January 21, 2012, 07:04:12 PMI've read and re-read them countless times...they scare me more now than when I first opened them!Same here (to both of you), I first read 1984 (the book) just before it was actually 1984 (the year), Brave New World soon after. Add the Illuminatus Trilogy to the set and you get really freaked out and paranoid.Back to thread subject:Much to my great regret economics drives television. Gone are the days of the big budget high quality TV shows.It's so much cheaper to send a camera and sound recordist to follow some egotist who actually thinks their point of view on some subject has some worth, than it is to set up a full production costume drama television series. Or even cheaper just buy old video footage from cameras fitted to police cars that are used to collect evidence, and would have just been wiped after the fact, but some clever bastard realised you can sell it to desperate TV stations who have little or no budget.So we as a population are stuck (until the little stations think of a new radical way of financing themselves) with endless repeats (again easier than original program creation) or shite "reality" programs.
Illuminatus Trilogy ...must reading! I put that in the same category as Carol Quigley's Tragedy and Hope.
But you see what I mean the majority of TV here is the same thing, with a few jewels that shine out against the shite.
Here my bi*ch about it all ... the programs I most like, with few exceptions get killed too soon ...
Peter: Everybody, I got bad news - we've been cancelled.Lois: Oh, no. Peter, how can they do that?Peter: Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We just gotta accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows like: Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonderfalls, Fastlane, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, Skin, Girls Club, Cracking Up, The Pits, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda At Large, Costello, The Lone Gunmen, A Minute With Stan Hooper, Normal, Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddie, The Street, American Embassy, Cedric The Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, and Greg The Bunny.Lois: Is there no hope?Peter: Well, I suppose if ALL those shows go down the tubes we might have a shot
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