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.
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