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It might sound a bit hypocritical, but I really mean the following sentences serious, because I am getting really more and more confused in our world of today and I am becoming too philosophical right now in a lonely German night.
Even in Germany, I can no more really draw a clear border-line between satire, cynicism, news, reality and fiction.
Sometimes, here, the satirists are better journalists than the journalists and some journalists became politicians and are better politicians than their adversaries.
I am also old enough to remember this night the US-TV-serial "Dynasty" of the 1980's and the discussion of those days, when real politicians took part in one episode.
Then, there was this book ...
by ...
... with the conclusion that our Western societies will reach a point, in which you can no more really make a difference between fiction and reality because all will become a matter of relativity.
Neil Postman quoted espcecially the episode of "Dynasty" with Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford in it and said, this is the beginning of a dangerous decadence in Western entertainment society, because you will have problems to make a difference between fiction and real politics.
So, there will be a point when you are watching a TV screen and you can no more decide if this is e.g. a real legal proceeding in a court about a real crime of rape or if this is only a movie about a fictional crime or if this is fiction or reality because the politicians will one day show no more difference from actors in a soap opera like "Dynasty" and whom do you want rather to believe - Henry Kissinger in the episode of "Dynasty" or Henry Kissinger in the real White House?
And when would he be more influential to the population? In Dynasty (much more audience than in press conferences!) or in the White House?
What would the fans of "Dynasty" have said? Fiction and Reality is all the same?
And when would a comment of Kissinger in Dynasty or in the White House really be SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY or becoming REALITY?
And possibly, Postman said, you will in the future only wake up when the victim was a real person in a real crime and the person may be dead - but then it will be already too late to wake up from "amusing yourself to death" by mixing fiction with reality.
And now, I honestly ask everyone here about this video at the end of this posting - what is this for you and what will it be for you in one month or one year?
A funny satire about reality?
This evening, having time to look at many statistics and mathematical projections of the coronavirus worldwide, I find the video at the end "sick" and "cynical" already in two ways: The real comments sound silly and cynical only some weeks later but also the complete video itself is now cynical for me because of the music and the complaining about the silly persons in it and I really do not know any more to count all things in and about this video which does not make me laugh but it makes me really sad in a depressive way because the dying persons during the coming weeks will be really dead in reality!
So, what is this video now for you as an audience?
Sick cynical humour, satire about politics, real politics with really dead victims or still entertainment?
How sick and stubborn have we all, journalists, politicians, comedians and also we - the audience of all of this - become before the coronavirus shows us now how short our life can be?
And will real death still wake us up yet from our "amusement"? Or am I simply a bit too depressive about human sillyness this evening?
Even in Germany, I can no more really draw a clear border-line between satire, cynicism, news, reality and fiction.
Sometimes, here, the satirists are better journalists than the journalists and some journalists became politicians and are better politicians than their adversaries.
I am also old enough to remember this night the US-TV-serial "Dynasty" of the 1980's and the discussion of those days, when real politicians took part in one episode.
Then, there was this book ...
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Wikipedia
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by ...
Neil Postman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
... with the conclusion that our Western societies will reach a point, in which you can no more really make a difference between fiction and reality because all will become a matter of relativity.
Neil Postman quoted espcecially the episode of "Dynasty" with Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford in it and said, this is the beginning of a dangerous decadence in Western entertainment society, because you will have problems to make a difference between fiction and real politics.
So, there will be a point when you are watching a TV screen and you can no more decide if this is e.g. a real legal proceeding in a court about a real crime of rape or if this is only a movie about a fictional crime or if this is fiction or reality because the politicians will one day show no more difference from actors in a soap opera like "Dynasty" and whom do you want rather to believe - Henry Kissinger in the episode of "Dynasty" or Henry Kissinger in the real White House?
And when would he be more influential to the population? In Dynasty (much more audience than in press conferences!) or in the White House?
What would the fans of "Dynasty" have said? Fiction and Reality is all the same?
And when would a comment of Kissinger in Dynasty or in the White House really be SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY or becoming REALITY?
And possibly, Postman said, you will in the future only wake up when the victim was a real person in a real crime and the person may be dead - but then it will be already too late to wake up from "amusing yourself to death" by mixing fiction with reality.
And now, I honestly ask everyone here about this video at the end of this posting - what is this for you and what will it be for you in one month or one year?
A funny satire about reality?
This evening, having time to look at many statistics and mathematical projections of the coronavirus worldwide, I find the video at the end "sick" and "cynical" already in two ways: The real comments sound silly and cynical only some weeks later but also the complete video itself is now cynical for me because of the music and the complaining about the silly persons in it and I really do not know any more to count all things in and about this video which does not make me laugh but it makes me really sad in a depressive way because the dying persons during the coming weeks will be really dead in reality!
So, what is this video now for you as an audience?
Sick cynical humour, satire about politics, real politics with really dead victims or still entertainment?
How sick and stubborn have we all, journalists, politicians, comedians and also we - the audience of all of this - become before the coronavirus shows us now how short our life can be?
And will real death still wake us up yet from our "amusement"? Or am I simply a bit too depressive about human sillyness this evening?