03-02-2017, 01:51 PM
In the current 4T almost everyone, even creative people, have been exposed to the addling effects of mass entertainment. In the last 4T many creative people had avoided the culture of mass 'entertainment'. Big entertainment around 1940 in cinema was great, and even popular music (Big Band music) was probably the best popular music except for... Strauss waltzes?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.