Comments on: A Daily Show Disgruntlement http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/07/13/a-daily-show-disgruntlement/ Practicing mental indigestion daily Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: blindhaberdasher http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/07/13/a-daily-show-disgruntlement/comment-page-1/#comment-44 blindhaberdasher Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:24:39 +0000 http://family.ncambium.com/jt/?p=33#comment-44 Did your fancy journalism school teach you how to write coherently and establish a clear point? Also, it seems like you take comedy shows way too seriously. Did your fancy journalism school teach you how to write coherently and establish a clear point? Also, it seems like you take comedy shows way too seriously.

]]> By: JT http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/07/13/a-daily-show-disgruntlement/comment-page-1/#comment-43 JT Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:41 +0000 http://family.ncambium.com/jt/?p=33#comment-43 Plato argued for philosopher kings in his Republic to make all the intellectual choices for the nation. There is some implication, especially if you read what he has to say about theatre, that this very phenomena of the 'informed' versus the 'entertained' should be directly avoided. Our social mores wouldn't tolerate a limited body of power for which we could do nothing about. Trusting the 'philosopher kings' is just not something we would do. Plato felt that plays and music were only useful in promoting ethics, much like Aesop's fables. Anything that appealed to emotion was false and a direct lead away from true forms. Interesting to see how someone from so long ago already had insight to a very modern problem enhanced and invigorated through technological wonder. I wonder what, if anything, Plato would blog? Plato argued for philosopher kings in his Republic to make all the intellectual choices for the nation. There is some implication, especially if you read what he has to say about theatre, that this very phenomena of the ‘informed’ versus the ‘entertained’ should be directly avoided.

Our social mores wouldn’t tolerate a limited body of power for which we could do nothing about. Trusting the ‘philosopher kings’ is just not something we would do.

Plato felt that plays and music were only useful in promoting ethics, much like Aesop’s fables. Anything that appealed to emotion was false and a direct lead away from true forms. Interesting to see how someone from so long ago already had insight to a very modern problem enhanced and invigorated through technological wonder.

I wonder what, if anything, Plato would blog?

]]> By: Jesse http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/07/13/a-daily-show-disgruntlement/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Jesse Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:17:31 +0000 http://family.ncambium.com/jt/?p=33#comment-42 I think the harmful elements are arising out of a mixing of the two--the societal and the cultural. In a world where politics and entertainment coalesce seamlessly, there's bound to be come complications. Whereas people used to watch the news for <b>news</b> and read publications for other "entertainment news," we now have network television shows going from the number of dead in Iraq to the latest Hollywood affair. It leads to a symptom--people begin to think that news has to be entertaining, information be damned. I think the harmful elements are arising out of a mixing of the two–the societal and the cultural. In a world where politics and entertainment coalesce seamlessly, there’s bound to be come complications. Whereas people used to watch the news for news and read publications for other “entertainment news,” we now have network television shows going from the number of dead in Iraq to the latest Hollywood affair. It leads to a symptom–people begin to think that news has to be entertaining, information be damned.

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