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You really should read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

Because what you are saying might be how it is today (especially in america), but it doesn't have to be like that.

The book I mentioned tries to explain why, and I think it does a good job at it.

>Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state control.

In the covid era, we get both!

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