A Place to Share

A new place here for me to share all those things I ponder when I should be doing other things. Posts will be sporadic and range from travel to life's deeper questions to food, for 'Food is my Life'[tm]. So eclectic, but with a definite postmodern bent, if you will. I'm looking forward to putting things 'on paper.'

"authenticity vs. artifice"

As a media analyst/researcher, this article deals with much of the contrived nature of the mass media -- trying desparately to be 'real' when it is all a manufactured image, much as McLuhan noted in the early '60s and George Balanchine noted into the 70s ('the mirror is not you, the mirror is you looking at you, and they are not the same thing.'[from Suzanne Farrell's autobiography]) So -- the argument over "authenticity vs. artifice" (as stated by Browne in this article) has been around for a very long time. Longer than television itself has lived amongst us. So -- when arguing about what is real and what is not, I'd argue it is all in the eye of the beholder -- NOT the manufacturer, but the viewer.

Why the Monkees -- and Davy Jones -- should get respect - CNN.com

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