{"id":9945,"date":"2010-11-16T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2010-11-16T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:46:28","slug":"too-much-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9945","title":{"rendered":"Too much reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tell me, why oh why, just tell me, why we have to endure “the name<\/a> that can’t be spoken in this here blog” in a reality TV program? Has American audience sunk to the lowest common demoninator? The answer, a resounding yes. I was watching an interview with Ian McEwan<\/a> where he was asked if he thinks that we are all going to hell in a handbasket and he said that writers like to think so, thinking people like to think so, because it gives you cred to believe we are all deeply flawed “we love pessimisim, it is the badge of any decent intellectual to think we are all going to hell in a handbasket” but he himself believes that for the most part people are basically good.<\/p>\n

So in abstract I have to the believe most people are thinking beings and this anathma is surely just the conjuring of a jester in the royal court – merely entertainment – merely getting rich off of people’s base fear.<\/p>\n

[Watch this interview<\/a> too on McEwan talking about my all time favorite author John Updike – marvelous – my English professor at UNO, Malcolm McGraw said that he had written the great American novel in the Rabbit series, and I sent Updike a letter and told him that and said I believe it too, and he wrote me back – a handwritten letter I will forever cherish – I had told him I bought most of the tetralogy on a remainder table and he was quite taken by the hilarity of that – oh but I digress, was I not speaking about an unintelligent being and here I am discussing a hyper intelligent one? – oh silly me.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tell me, why oh why, just tell me, why we have to endure “the name that can’t be spoken in this here blog” in a reality TV program? Has American audience sunk to the lowest common demoninator? The answer, a resounding yes. I was watching an interview with Ian McEwan where he was asked if he thinks that we are all going to hell in a handbasket and he said that writers like to think… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2Ap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9948,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}