(identity 'myron)

Sun, 03 Jul 2005

Dissent [/personal]

By chance, I caught one of the most interesting interviews I've ever heard on PBS with American graphic designer, Milton Glaser (read the transcript). The man very articulately touches on everything from the balance of power in democracy to the effects of consumerism in America. I'm not going to bother lifting any quotes from it—the entire thing is a must-read... Ok, well maybe just one:

So, there's been a kind of shift, it seems to me in America, from an idea that truth is valuable to an idea that entertainment is more valuable. And as a result of that, it—lying in public no longer has any consequences, because you get crazy in thinking about all these public lies. You know with— They use the term spin, and of course spin is just a nice way to say lie. But everything is spun in order to achieve a certain result. The fascinating thing about it is that the public who has grown up conditioned by advertising perfectly accepts political misrepresentation this way.

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