Sunday, January 02, 2005
Directionless
100 years ago, society was ruddered, tempered and destined. A progressive decadent movement over the years spurned conformity and fate in favour of existentialism. Where to now? Peaks and troughs are the pattern of prior to any balance. The implication here is that there will be a Lost Generation who is truly unleashed, followed by a reversal into a moulded society.
The Movie Script: already made; Gattaca
My take is not genetic; I think it can happen sooner. Balance again: to control output you need to choke input. Ignore the internet for a moment. Internationalisation of media corporations was the first step, but the popular television series' have so far appeared to be local - for current adult audiences. Change may be to come, with the streamlining of children's programming already happening across the globe. Disney and Nicolodeon are finding that their programmes will work throughout Europe and America seamlessly. Perhaps generation after the Playstation Generation will have borderless commonalities.
This equates to counter culture movements actually being aligned and fixed around international corporate predetermined recipes. Misoginy and racism will yield to sanctioned class hatred. But, since schemies are destined to inherit the world, I'm scared.
Note -
Acknowledging the existence of the internet: The breakers have been put on; the sheer mass of media available snowballs. This, like everything will will consolidate, and perhaps go the way of television. I guess I'm saying that television is ahead of the internet, from the perspective of the corporate format. A grand assumption no doubt.
on a separate note - Holst's Saturn. Today I feel the descent to insanity coupled with uninspired boredom.
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