I think veeshanvault has an account there using veeshanvault/password
This was interesting. Here's a portion:
For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the ''masses'' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that ''24'' episode suggests, the exact opposite is happening: the culture is getting more cognitively demanding, not less. To make sense of an episode of ''24,'' you have to integrate far more information than you would have a few decades ago watching a comparable show. Beneath the violence and the ethnic stereotypes, another trend appears: to keep up with entertainment like ''24,'' you have to pay attention, make inferences, track shifting social relationships. This is what I call the Sleeper Curve: the most debased forms of mass diversion -- video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms -- turn out to be nutritional after all.
I think if there were any trend of this, that TV would not be the cause of people getting smarter. There are many studies that show that TV itself doesn't help. Playing certain video games can though.
Fucking hell it must be a slow news week if this is the best they can do.
So for every one program like "24" that (allegedly) makes you smarter, how many piece of shit programs are there to once again drag you down (even closer) to the lowest level of primate.
Teenybloke wrote:Fucking hell it must be a slow news week if this is the best they can do.
So for every one program like "24" that (allegedly) makes you smarter, how many piece of shit programs are there to once again drag you down (even closer) to the lowest level of primate.
This is just plain wrong.
/nod
My goal is to live forever. So far so good.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
there is so much stupid crap in that show....i know cause i watch it every week.
probably the proliferation of nonfiction programming on television would be the most likely source of informative programming. Discovery, A&E, History Channel, etc.
I already know how to elude the DoD. Just drive a Jeep (with headlights on) right through the middle of the desert.
apparently even though satellites can nail some associate of Marwan at a gas station in urban SoCal, they can't seem to find the only operating motor vehichle in a 20 mile radius in the freakin desert that contains Habib Marwan, the guy who happens to be the mastermind.
though in Marwan's defense, that Jeep rules, because he got to the AF1 crash site about 20 minutes before Jack Bauer, even though he was Off-Roading and Jack was in a helicopter. so that must be a bad ass Jeep.
