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What is significant about these shows is that they are so insignificant. They are virtually without content, devoid of the most elementary dramatic interest. Ultimately, they are examples of what Media Scholar David Thorburn calls "television's genius for marketing banality." All of them represent aspects of a shared television culture, but they serve as reminders that the word culture also refers to something grown in an artificial medium. For instance, a virus...
...tubes and needles going to a bank of computer screens and monitors. In a few cases, the infants thrive in that controlled, constricted environment, designed to give them the best chance to live. But most do not make it. They spend their brief existence in a sterile world, devoid of any real warmth or affection, a world filled with pain and discomfort. In my own view, the odds just were not worth it. I found it impossible to confront the vision of my child dying alone in a room full of machines-never having known what...
...Bellow's comment after a similar experience in the Middle East: "Such intelligent discussion hasn't always been wrong. What is wrong with it is that the discussants invariably impart their own intelligence to what they are discussing. Later, historical studies show that what actually happened was devoid of anything like such intelligence...
...cruel humor works better in the play's free-form first act than in the second, which is overladen with plot. But at every moment they capture the futile bravado of the out-but-not-down, and make the play seem a substantial addition to a season largely devoid of both humor and social conscience...
...masterwork The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argued that Hitler and Stalin used terror as a tool to fabricate a new kind of man devoid of individualism and self-respect, Didion correctly sees a similar phenomenon taking place in EI Salvador Indiscriminate, random killing deemphasize the value of human existence Murder no longer shocks Salvadorans; it is a natural part of life...