Doesn't this remind you of the Australian media, and in particular, media focused on only the attention of fashion, celebrities, careers and all the other material things? It does, doesn't it? And also, Australian politics, especially when Julia Gillard was campaigning to be elected in 2013?
Sunday 10 November 2013
Distracted by Trivia
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 - Neil Postman
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