[NewMusic] Book Review - Alex Ross = Gannicide

[George Cremaschi]

> On average, people who are confronted with information/experience 
> that is unknown are influenced by the way that information is frame

Of course, I agree - I'm just saying that the framing is done as
part of a conscious feedback loop, where they are telling us what they
know at least some of us want to hear. There's nothing inherently
wrong in that, other than what often happens in a hyper-capitalist society
where news and culture organizations have to sell their product.

>I agree that it's the prevailing message, but it's  
>targeted at the folks who will produce the money for them, not the  
>entire listening audience. And in fairness, some reports have dug  
>deeper: the This American Life on Guantanamo was pretty disturbing,  
>for example.

Well there's no question that a certain amount of the programming
is unblinking and fairly objective - my point is just that the whole
thing is carefully calibrated to not be a total bummer. The super bleak
story about melting polar ice caps is always followed by a heartwarming
story about a Guatemalan organic coffee collective, or the BBC news is 
followed by those cackling car repair cretins...

But for me there is an even larger issue, frightening as well as fascinating:
how demographics is creating the very people it needs to in order to fulfill it's 
mission. How more and more people are becoming little more than the products 
and ideas they've been sold, believing in them only until the next batch arrives. 
Of course, there will always be the 10% (or 5%, or 1%...) who can decide for 
themselves, (at least until the order goes out to get rid of the 'intellectuals').
But in our "democracy", that doesn't even get you a local assembly seat. 

-George



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