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Now...This http://thespectacle.net
"Now...This" is part of the live music video media critique (More) http://thespectacle.net
"Now...This" is part of the live music video media critique "Thus Spoke The Spectacle."
The video juxtaposes the doom and gloom of corporate mainstream news with the gleeful consumerist mentality of the advertising that sponsors the newscasts. It is based on Neil Postman's landmark media critique "Amusing Ourselves To Death."
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music and lyrics by Eric Goodman
live performance by Eric Goodman and Mike Stevens
Special thanks to Mark Achbar for use of the media montage clip from his excellent film "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media."
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Familiar faces . . .
Smiling reliable friends . . .
Never late. Never a hair out of place.
Just the right lack of emotion to fill the seconds of our lives with novelty and death.
Celebrities in their own right. Liaisons to the world of gruesome tales, and fleeting obsessions.
The grotesque, the absurd, the insane are mere decoys; it is the psychic overload that drives us into the marketplace in a delirious frenzy, seeking salvation.
Morning, noon, and night, we witness the ritual sacrifice of truth to ratings, as our smiling friends lead the assault on coherence with the strangest of all phrases . . .
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"That's Entertainment!" (White Horse Inn) [1of5] This is posted with permission of the White Horse Inn. For more information on this episode and (More) This is posted with permission of the White Horse Inn. For more information on this episode and other episodes visit: http://www.whitehorseinn.org (Credit to Youtube user Brokenman777 for the opening clip) February 3, 2008 Commentary: That's Entertainment! Hello and welcome to another broadcast of the White Horse Inn. Well there's no business like show business. And from the look of things, the church in America agrees. I don't even need to recount examples in order to substantiate that claim. If you have been around a fair number of churches these days you are bound to know what I am talking about. I used to think that American Christianity was just accommodating to the general cultural trend that Neil Postman described in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. But after reading a spate of culture histories, have come to realize that the church actually helped create our culture of entertainment. Once upon a time the church was the only show in town, for rich and poor, princes and peasants the spectacle of the Medieval Mass was high drama. In fact the relative difficulty of the Reformation in reaching the lowest classes was probably to some extent at least due to the attachment of the masses to mysterious rituals, processions, morality plays, and similar attractions. Convinced that the Bible should be heard, read, and understood by everybody in their own language the Reformers introduced Europe to wide-scale literacy with an emphasis on an educated ministry for a well instructed laity. ... Our subject is "That's Entertainment: Confusing Church and Theater from Finney to the present." Oldtruth.com has been dealing with the issues presented in this program for a few years now. You can find a lot of information involving various topics concerning the "seeker"-sensitive movement here: http://www.oldtruth.com TeamPyro has been deals alot with the "emergent church" of digressives. You can find information here: http://teampyro.blogspot.com (Less)
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