/510/ Couch Potatoes to Screen Sausages ft. Ryan Zickgraf
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Show Notes
On critiques of entertainment.
New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contemporary cases.
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How does consensus-age comedy like King of the Hill deal with hyperpolitics today?
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Is the reliance on archetypes a problem, or inherent to all comedy?
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Why is Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death still relevant?
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Is the Gen X critique of 'couch potatoes' and TV-watching similar to today's techlash?
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Have we become insensible to contradiction?
Links:
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We’re still distracting ourselves to death, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd
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King of the Hill reboot is ill-suited to the Trump age, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd