Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:37:29 -0400 From: Mike Pelaez <mpelaez-AT-amazon.com> Subject: Re: Interesting article on Survivor Look, my point is simple - spectacular-capitalist economic-social relations will by definition produce spectacular-capitalist images and communication. It doesn't take a deep analysis to realize that everything on television has undercurrents and reflections of the prevailing system of power. What do you really expect to get out of a critique of a TV show? A new critical theory? A new praxis? Don't think so. Sure, I admit you have a point when you say it isn't harmelss. On second thought, these shows do recreate in a more obvvious manner the exact opposite type of social relations that we should strive for. It's not that I don't "see" or don't have a "keen" enough mind to know what these shows are saying about humanity, it's just that I don't see the point in going on and on about them. These shows can be entertaining and unless you watch NO TV listen to NO radio and read NO capitalist newspapers/magazines then you can point no fingers in self-righteous indignation. ALL of us know what these shows are designed to do but we also know what WE can get out of them in terms of more support for OTHER ways of living. Finally, what frustrates me is someone who talks down to me and by extension the list members, and who obviously wants to show off his eductation by starting some intellectual pissing contest. It's not that I don't "get it" it's that it's a waste of time to state the obvious over and over again even if you clothe the argument in the robes of academia or in the chic street-wear of "I'm more revolutionary and radical than you". liberty, justice, equality Michael P. Pelaez
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