Back in college, my Media Studies professor kept harping on the theme of "postmodern sensibilities rooted in a spectator psychology". What you described below is within the orbit of this concept. Due to the saturation of media in our daily lives, real experiences are often unavoidably filtered through a prism of "manufactured reference points." Some Marxist scholars call this a form of "cultural schizophrenia" wrought (roll eyes) by capitalist consumerist culture.
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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
Everytime you read something horrible its, "like it was in a movie" or some other great quote from some passer-by
Why dont people accept that this is REALITY and they have it backward, this isnt like a movie, this is REALITY you dumb ass. I dont get it, anyway, the little things i notice...
no idiot, its like reality, not a movie.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...alia-bushfires |