No offense Dan, but your friend probably didn't know what you were talking
about. Either that or he's just very dumb.
I'm not sure if television is becoming more surreal. I spent the morning
watching a tape of Betty Boop cartoons made in 1932, and now would not at
all be surprised if a anthropomorphic skat-singing mouse looked up my skirt.
But I think cartoons occupy a seperate cultural hemisphere, so I won't talk
about that.
I think that television has very desensitizing effect. I never noticed how
weird it was until I quit watching it and started again.
I think that perhaps the "weirdness" that we observe is part of the visual
media. I can recall any "natural" television. When you watch it you're being
transported into another place, or being fooled into believing something
very deliberatly staged is real.
Angela
>
>His perspective seemed weirder than the TV commercials themselves. I had to
>pinch myself ;^)
>
>Like I said, he's no genius, but could this be a larger phenomenon? Are
>people REALLY losing touch with reality? Was my friend simply a drug
>addled, troubled teenager or has the Media co-opted his perception of
>reality?
>
>-dan
>
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