Television as the perfect medium (Sale)
August 18th, 2006 | Published in Consumerism, Quotes, Technology, Television | 1 Comment
[Television] is the medium that almost perfectly expresses the high-tech society: simplistic and forceful, capable of no complexity of thought whatsoever, designed for limited and graphic impacts (best if short and violent, like football and commercials), and sending pulses continually at that psychological nexus that Freud, doctor for the consumer society, called the “pleasure principle,” where desires, always created, are always insatiable.
–Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future (1995), p. 217
August 21st, 2006 at 4:34 am (#)
Anybody interested in this topic might find the “Century of the Self”, a BBC docu-series interesting too:
http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart2of4
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart3of4
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart4of4_0
“Documentary about the role of psychoanalysis, marketing, and public relations in the United States.”
They are in public domain (legally downloadable).