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Mitch Berbrier's avatar

Enthralling and depressing piece. I found this point particularly pithy: “Every time we reward the sensational over the substantive, the inflammatory over the informative, we are voting—with our attention and our wallets—for a darker future.”

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LV's avatar

This was visible in pop culture even before the internet, as everything has become infotainment. MTV, which used to unironically stand for “music television,” slowly evolved from a music video channel into a reality TV channel. CNN lost its gravitas. The History Channel and Learning Channel became nothing of either sort. Entertainment capitalism simply leads to brain rot.

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