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So what is the number one symptom that our society is devolving?

― anthony, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hardly anyone eats real sweetbreads anymore. It's all testicles testicles testicles.

― mark s, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, I have nothing against testicles... at the moment.

― Kim, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Channel 4 forum complaints about Brass Eye. And the tabloids complaining about Brass Eye. But most importantly, the MPs complaining about Brass Eye. Uniting factor = none of them actually watched the programme. The future = Tonight With Trevor McDonald...forever!

― DG, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dennis hopper turning people into goombahs.

― ethan, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Reality" TV. The fact that people actually watch "reality" TV. The fact that most people who watch "reality" TV think they are smarter than the people who make the stuff.

― duane, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Duane, you're picking a fight with the wrong board. We'll see you in the car park afterwards.

Celebrity Sleepover: Not content with having their personal opinions prized on pointless nostalgia shows, D-list celebrities are now deemed interesting people to be around. There's a similar show on MTV, where fans get to meet their idols, but who the fuck idolises Vanessa Feltz? Message to society: Forget real-life friends, TV presenters are there for you now. It's scarily close to being Brass Eye, like Bruno Brookes thinking the kids care about what he says.

And pretty much any other recent BBC "light entertainment" show.

― Graham, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Graham, Celebrity Big Brother was AWESOME! And you know it.

― mark s, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Please can you rewrite the question?

― the pinefox, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Question re-written for the Pinefox. No offence, Anthony.

― DG, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark, I love reality TV shows (NB my challenge to Duane), esp Celebrity Big Brother.

Both shows tried to show the "real" celebrity. CBB was great because it did it in almost pure form (live CBB would be the greatest show ever). Celebrity Sleepover's premise was that a tiny glimpse into a very minor sleb's real life was still something special. It was like a relic from the past, where any level of fame was something people respected. It just seemed so...pathetic.

― Graham, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Graham - I didn't say they aren't good (they're not tho'), I cited 'em as an example of "our" society's DECADENCE. Most people's main cultural input is TV - right? - it's dominated by a form that makes less of a secret than ever of the makers' contempt for the consumer - "intelligent" % of audience eat it up "knowingly" like poop w/ a spoon because they're so thoroughly MODERN. How is that not DECADENCE INCARNADO? You like it, yr welcome...It's not like I'm attacking it from any position of cultural superiority either, I'm not. I just favor different flavours of poop.

― duane, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

gorillaz

― Geoff, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MTV's "Jackass", "Hollow Man", Fred Durst probably making more money than the guy who invents the artificial heart. Mook-culture, really.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Real World.

― Ally, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

in 2001 i was so... narrow. anyway i don't think we're devolving anymore. i think we're moving sideways.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 3 August 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

have we ever talked about decadence, the literary/cultural movement? i meant to be writing about it now w/r/t 'dorian gray'.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 3 August 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i think we've already devolved and now after hitting bottom we are evolving again. proof: people are starting to not wear newsieboy caps anymore

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 3 August 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope society devolves to an 'amoeba'. then we can start again ;)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 3 August 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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