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Media Studies
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The result is a narrowing of cultural imagination, where audiences are trained to expect entertainment that entertains but does not provoke, distracts but does not enlighten.
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― Bansang Pinipilas
― Bansang Pinipilas
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It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the world just as the world is attempting to maximize every form of alert. Sound-light shows, as new cliché, are in effect mergers, retrievers of the tribal condition. It is a state that has already overtaken private enterprise, as individual businesses form into massive conglomera
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― From Cliche to Archetype
― From Cliche to Archetype
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