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The 00’s: A Decade from Hell - TIME
Molly Lambert said this is “the Lost Generation” of bloggers and for what its worth i very much agree. i’ll be very glad for this decade to be over.
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It is also the most creatively bankrupt decade in this century. There have been a few bright spots here and there, but the last ten years produced no “new movements” in the arts. 2000 was the dawn of America’s mind-boggling obsession with “celebrity” fueled by (or causing) the explosion of “celebrity” magazines, 24 hour “celebrity” channels, and ultimately a never-ending stream of “celebrity”-focused web-sites. These celebrities for the most part have no skills, no talents, nothing to offer society in the way of art, unless publicly conducting a cartoon version of a drama-laced life is considered “art” by anyone.
During this decade, the studios and networks saturated the market with reality shows and fell into a greed encouraged by the low cost of those productions. The public in turn committed themselves to not only watching the endless stream of shit that is “reality”, but to participating as contestants in any version of base and humiliating scenarios to achieve what most of them feel is the zenith of human existence: appearing on Television. At the same time, with our Government’s help, laws that insured independent production were relaxed and mergers of media giants took place destroying much of creative innovation on broadcast TV. Meanwhile, the studios dedicated themselves to filming sequel upon expensive sequel and movie versions of old TV shows while continuously lowering the total amount of films made.
Like I said, there have been a few bright spots, but overall, this decade will go down as the most creatively-depressed decade of the century.
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JB for Cultural Ambassador 2010.
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But lighten up, it’s just entertainment. Amirite, the matt smith?
