I’ve almost completely stopped watching the news, current
affairs programmes and virtually everything the TV has to offer. Irresponsible,
isn’t it? I have a duty to keep abreast of matters, don’t I? I should know what’s
going on so I can play my part as an involved citizen, shouldn’t I?
But of what, exactly, am I a citizen? I see a drab world
presided over by drab politicians, drab entrepreneurs and drab financiers. I
see a timid, toothless media that seeks to do little but recycle what the drab
people create. I see an entertainment industry splashing a thin layer of gaudy,
glitzy colour on it all, making heroes of celebrities, stick-women-with-attitude
and prima donna fucking sports stars.
It’s a world sans magic, sans mystery, and almost sans
imagination. And so I’ve stopped looking at it.
Dr Pangloss is vindicated, it seems.
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