There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. | | | | Steve McQueen in "The Great Escape," 1963.
(Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
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| | rantnrave:// I’m more “connected” than I’ve ever been. I know more things. I know more people. I have access to more information. I know myself better. But more and more I feel disconnected from a big common shared experience. I was watching RON HOWARD and BRIAN GRAZER’s BEATLES doc. I wasn’t born at the time but my mom and I used to discuss the period. Television was still new. All of AMERICA seemed to tune into THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW to see them. The nation focused on one thing or maybe it just seemed that way to people under 30. When I was a kid there were three broadcast networks. Cable was nascent. Then media exploded. A thousand channels. Millions of niche publications. Social media. YOUTUBE. NETFLIX. Algorithms feeding us more of the same going narrower and deeper. It’s not just that many are spending too much time with media and not enough time with each other. It’s that we’re all watching our own, personalized media. We avoid each other by turning on our devices in the first place, then we avoid each other even further by rejecting the idea of shared experiences on these devices. I’m not pointing fingers. I’m looking for ingredients to the causation. This is not a conspiracy no matter how many dopey politicians and their constituents rail on about it. It's fragmented and incremental. I take responsibility for my own actions and habits. But in the bid to entertain ourselves and programmers’ hunger for our engagement, we do indeed spend more time with media. As a collective, are we more disconnected in terms of a common focus or common good? A lack of a shared experience. And then we talk about partisan news and facts. Is there even a shared reality now? Yes, there are commonalities but choice, connectivity, and access make them seem scarce. Time to start re-reading and watching MARSHALL MCLUHAN again. Maybe some WALL-E... Friend of REDEF ALYSSA MILANO on taking down TRUMP… Comedies are better watched with friends... Maybe it's generational but GMAIL UI and threading is perplexing. .. There will be no Friday edition of MediaREDEF this week... Happy Birthday to SALIL MEHTA, LUCY FISHER, BLAKE INDURSKY, ROMAN TSUN, DANNY M.ORROW and ALICE PETERSON. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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