We are beyond the mercy of critical lucidity and valuable scholarship. The nature of bingeing is to commit to the frenzy without any hope of rational control or order. That is why Donald Trump is the exact leader for our time: he is so blind to order and meaning because he is inextricably caught up in the binge of himself, of being Trump every moment, and of knowing every moment is both new and exactly like very earlier moment. He is not so much a leader as a primordial suck, the ego pit int which we are all tumbling. Since his only need is watching television, so his life is being on television, or quite simply being TV - being on.
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Friday 2 March 2018
Aaron Sorkin on Network
Even before the rise of Donald Trump, Aaron Sorkin claimed that “no predictor of the future - not even Orwell - has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote Network.” The film deals with the rise of infotainment, the decline of hard news, the birth of a culture in which we are assailed by an unending storm of images, the collapse of objective reality, and the emergence of a global market.
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