Aldous Huxley prophesied in A Brave New World that humankind would be taken prisoner not by externally imposed oppression, as Orwell had thought, but by our pleasures...as he saw it people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. Those capacities have been undone and the discourse has been shrivelled to nothing more than "winners" of game shows and the latest sex scandal on the latest soap with the latest big star with the latest...you get the picture.
Is this the legacy of "art" our generation wants to leave behind? The writing of the Elizabethan period, the paitings and scupturesd of the Renaissance, and the winner of AMerican Idol XXV from the era of Pop-Culture?
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