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IF PBS RAN THE ART WORLD

March 31, 2007 · 5 Comments

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Can you make it more like South Park?

Television, despite all the billions of human labor hours that have been spent making stuff (and that is what TV is all about, making stuff..just like painting or sculpture), has produced for the most part nothing but garbage. Endless millions of hours of garbage. Day after day. Week after week. Year after year. People eating bugs. People selecting which briefcase has the money. Guess who’s coming to decorate.

It is beyond depressing. It is an embarrassment to our culture and to our civilization.

The question, of course, is why? Why do we, despite the billions of dollars spent on TV and the billions of hours devoted to it, continue to produce garbage? (more…)

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