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Sincerely Amused

Sincerely Amused

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It’s a supreme irony, or perhaps a sad blindness, that the present generation is supposedly in love with ‘authenticity’, ‘sincerity’, and ‘keeping it real’. After all, we’ve been doing everything but that for nearly a century. As Neil Postman pointed out inĀ Amusing Ourselves to Death, we took a medium designed for amusing spectacle – theatre… Continue Reading