tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post7135507329448872381..comments2023-11-05T04:01:12.146-05:00Comments on Ad Aged: The genius of stupidity.george tannenbaumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974259094860905139noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-27413382908042663792010-11-05T11:26:12.534-04:002010-11-05T11:26:12.534-04:00Jefferson was on to something.Jefferson was on to something.KLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-29526177022506518362010-11-04T20:29:52.843-04:002010-11-04T20:29:52.843-04:00Oh and Kelly,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/...Oh and Kelly,<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106853619george tannenbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974259094860905139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-13258266430186479162010-11-04T20:27:10.139-04:002010-11-04T20:27:10.139-04:00Kelly, you're probably right. But if you read ...Kelly, you're probably right. But if you read the Hedges book, you'll see a dark underbelly of America.<br /><br />But you are a woman after my own heart....george tannenbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974259094860905139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-53544961626932824682010-11-04T19:21:06.989-04:002010-11-04T19:21:06.989-04:00George,
Agreed, agreed... except where I'm no...George,<br /><br />Agreed, agreed... except where I'm not so sure.<br /><br />"... The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this 'other society,' serious [stuff is] being pushed to the margins."<br /><br />Like you (and Mr. Hedges, obviously), I believe everything human's in precipitous decline. When I'm being flip or knee-jerk with my answer. <br /><br />But when I think about it hard I wonder about things like: <br /><br />My parents, with modern art swirling all around them, decrying it as too newfangled and the basis of all (intellectual) evil...<br /><br />My parents' parents hating The Beatles because they were loud and tuneless and haircutless and meaningless... <br /><br />Jefferson not really wanting all of us voting, because most of us are a bunch of uninformed finks, and <br /><br />Shakespeare, in his day, being accused of pandering to the lowest common denominator with his humor and filth.<br /><br />Is false certainty and magic (BTW the witch lost, down here in no-sane-man's-land) and the decline of everything for the masses new? Or isn't it always with us<br /><br />as we decline in our perception of what constitutes a decline?<br /><br />Sure, Twitterishness and Facebookification bites. But it wasn't so long ago when Buster Keaton was decried because he saw that the people enjoyed slapstick more than... Shakespeare...<br /><br />This is just this generation's way of creating devastating simpletons of the masses, but it'll happen anyway.<br /><br />My (slightly rambling) 2¢!<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Kelly<br /><br />P.S. I like peanut M&Ms, anti-domestic violence efforts, cheap diet Coke, rain coming down in buckets, anything on the DIY channel, Obama, thinking really hard about complex issues, Montreal, peanut M&Ms in double-chocolate ice cream...<br /><br />and laughter. Never enough of that.Kellyhttp://maximumcustomerexperience.comnoreply@blogger.com