1/23/1999
Interesting article in Tribune about entertainment following the path of politics and sports, i.e., polls and scores. There is such an emphasis on competitiveness and winning. You might think that since they are driven by statistics, they would be cold and mechanical, but actually, they have a direct connection with science and biology—as the flow of art is directly correlated with naturally occurring systems in nature. (A computer program could be written where ideas for music, film, books, etc., would be automatically generated based upon current or projected public opinion). [1/23/2024: It has indeed...What has happened is that politics has followed the path of entertainment. Not that it wasn't in 1999, but a shift happened around that time where the film celebrity as politician evolved into the TV/Sports celebrity as politician: Jesse Ventura, Sonny Bono, etc. The next step in that evolution is obviously the internet and social media and whatever follows them. There's this idea of an epistocracy, or a rule by experts--but even those experts would be suffused in media].
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