Good prediction after all
The early stages of any communication technology inspire grandiose elite fuckheads to dream of a world where everyone is reduced to elite fuckhead idiocy.

A new item at American Radio History contains a beautifully horrible example. Arnold's 1933 handbook of advertising includes a chapter on the glorious promise of television. The author imagines the TV Utopia that awaits us in 1940:

I can easily anticipate special music of the operatic type written exclusively for broadcasting. No longer will it be necessary to compress a three-hour presentation of some famous opera into the period of an hour. Much of this will apply to our commercial programs of the future.

Instead of being a miscellaneous collection of disassociated items brought together for the sake of holding the attention of an audience for a limited time, there will be presented musical, dramatic and educational programs written for presentation where both eye and ear reception will be taken into account.

Jesus. What a grotesque monster. NOBODY really likes LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG operas. Fashionable fuckheads watch LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG operas because it's the fashionable thing to do. Radio could ALREADY present LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG operas in 1933. Short pieces weren't compelled by technical limitations; short pieces were compelled by HUMAN NATURE.

Normal people have other things to do. They listen to radio while washing dishes or changing diapers or fixing the car. They want ENTERTAINMENT, which means DISTRACTION from the dull hard stinky necessities of life. Radio in 1933 was already doing a damn good job of providing sane and clean entertainment, including a lot more classical music and serious discussion than any mass media provides now.

When the 1940 that I have described shall have arrived, we are likely to be in the midst of a new social and economic order.

Shall have is an excellent globaleth, a symptom of satanic neocon grammarrhoids.

New social and economic order is awfully familiar. In 1933 one new social and economic order was well underway in Stalin's Russia, and another new social and economic order was starting in Hitler's Germany.

Nations will no longer be disassociated units, but may be convened on a few hours' notice at a conference where views may be exchanged and visible indications of approval witnessed.

The perpetual idiotic dream of participatory democracy. Modern "libertarians" have finally achieved it. A conference where views may be exchanged and visible indications of approval witnessed is PRECISELY Facebook's stated mission. Exchange verbatim repetitions of Correct views, hit the Like button. Try to exchange an Incorrect view, and the conference disassociates your unit.

So this fuckhead was a good predictor after all, but his prediction wasn't the utopia that he idiotically imagined.

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Later: No, I'm wrong. No paradox, no irony, no failure. The new social and economic order IS utopia for fuckheads like Norman Corwin and this author. They are in charge of the utopia. That's the whole fucking point. Exterminating billions of Deplorables IS utopia for demonic psychopaths.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Entertainment, Leth

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