Friday, October 13, 2017

How Americans lost touch with reality

This short video provides a chronology of magical thinking in the US. It was there since the beginning, including distrust of the intellectual elite. The 60s promoted 'do your own thing' multi-culturalism and the internet provided a global forum for everyone to espouse their own truth, despite its relationship to reality. America then became a culture of celebrity, meaning not necessarily about earning fame through achievement but just being famous without the merit. It was more about the fantasy and illusion celebrity, which 'reality' TV shows exploited. All of which set the stage for Dump: The magical illusion of celebrity while the reality is, as Secretary of State Tillerson so aptly noted, a f*cking moron.

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