To:    Comment at the Guardian
Re:    Film and TV provide nice niches in the "socio-economic environment"
Date: Monday 23 October 06

In response to the following article in today's Guardian by Daniel Frampton: "Moving images"
 

 
The central problem, I believe, is that the primary purpose of 99 (or perhaps just 98) percent of what is shown on TV or at the cinema is, for ultimately commercial reasons, to hold viewers attention. This is best done by stimulating certain areas of our brain, which I hardly need go into detail about.

Film and TV provide nice niches in the "socio-economic environment", where Earth's "Greatest Ape" now struggles for survival and advantage and puts a great deal of unenlightened animal intelligence (and technology) into exploiting.

Where others see wonderfully intelligent, talented and creative human beings making invaluable contributions to society, I see "human apes" looking after themselves in the socio-economic environment, as millions of years of evolution programmed us to do.

More in this vein at http://www.spaceship-earth.org