Look anywhere and there is an endless supply of pointless and gratuitous sex being peddled. The music that comes at us from every direction has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Those who produce television shows have taken the path of least resistance and doled out to us one reality show after another. They produce too many television series without merit or value and sitcoms that just are not clever or even worth watching. Even the ads aren't very interesting anymore. Newspapers no longer serve to inform us very well and are starting to disappear. Magazines are shadows of what they used to be. Magazines now have a lot more pictures and a lot less text and are mostly about the newest things one can buy out there in the marketplace. Even the venue of Broadway has been dumbed down.
The public wants to be entertained and the media folks give them what they want, in increasing measure with each passing day. Even the news broadcast has to be entertaining enough to garner the highest ratings possible and the news broadcasters have to be easy on the eye. The latter part is more important than their ability to bring us the most important news of the day.
The world changes so quickly these days. Somehow, in all this change and transition, something very significant and important has been lost. The ability to express ourselves coherently and intelligently. The capacity to think and analyze what is happening to us and our world. The capacity to feel and to be compassionate and to care about others in a meaningful way. Such things don't seem to mean very much anymore. So long as the media moguls keep us laughing or singing along with the latest stuff that passes for music today, most people are happy and pacified.
So much has been lost. This is not progress.
