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Yeah i can sympathise with that, and it's the manipulation of those people that especially winds me up. I see poor kids on the local estates and i know their parents struggle with money, but thanks to the peer pressure induced by marketing, they have to save even more to give their kids the...

Some people might like to do all 4, the point is that going to museums and reading homer encourages more independant or critical thinking than watching jerry springer. You need only look across the pond and into the whitehouse to see what a nation of springer viewers gets you - blind media...

I agree. Plus i don't think books have much of a chance. The west is driven by advertising and when books are up against videogames, special effects laden films, and numbing shows on tv - it's no wonder they lose out. It's the same battle for minds that the rich fastfood companies have so...

In the same way marketing creates false needs and insecurities within a person and capitalises on them, the media generates its own demand and then dutifully supplies what the people want. If something is in a newspaper then it's hot news, so the editor is king, hence the saying - "we made you...

That's just the thing - for many children, tv is the only parent, and it's just as prominent in the lives of adults too, but what kind of influence is it? I don't know about you, but with the exception of the simpsons and royal family which both cast tv in a bad light, i've never watched a...

I've not read it, but i think bonfire of the vanities is about 80's new york. Quick edit...yes it is. From amazon... Bonfire's pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn't just Wolfe's best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an...

I tend to agree with sillyrabbit and true. Our popular culture driven by television, consumerism, celebrity, marketing etc. has churned out people who not only can't think for themselves but no longer want to because they fear the social ostracism that individuality brings. It's the age of...

I think you're right. But it does seem strange. Everything we hear tells us how we're leading busier lives and we must run to keep up, and yet we don't accomplish much. It's similar to when people praise computers for making life easier and yet we still work 40hrs a week. People never savour...