April14_2025

Overrated

In an audience society, defined by the 184 pages of Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves To Death"...

In an audience society, "when capitalism reached a certain level of accumulation, commodities began to detach themselves and become images. And citizens who formerly had played roles as political actors began to detach themselves from their own lives and become spectators." - Rick Roderick, Duke University, 1993

People's favorite activity becomes:

  1. This movie sucks!

  2. Pixels are out of place int he CGI!

  3. That film is overrated!

  4. The acting is so terrible!

  5. Can't stand her voice!

  6. So cringe!

 

All of these predictable practiced mindsets are what Tonly Clifton performances exploit in the audience.