I can do without a lot of TV these days.The spectacle of the amphitheater has been updated for modern consumption through the likes of 'The Apprentice' (which fucking started again tonight, hence this post) and 'The X Factor'.
Unfortunately they are no longer given weapons to hack each other to bits with. Instead they're fed on a steady diet of celebrity culture, an oxymoron if ever there was one, advertising and the empty capitalist promise that money equates to happiness. Only when their egos threaten to eclipse the planet, or their actual talent, whichever happens first, are they thrown before an unforgiving audience who will happily revel in their ultimate failure.
Whether its jeering at the tuneless nutters on X factor, sympathising with your favourite contestant when they exit the same show or sitting slack-jawed at just how far up themselves The Apprentice' contestants truly are, the audience is no better, nor worse, than those sat in the amphitheater watching the carnage.
But I can't be doing with mindless one-upmanship as entertainment so I don't buy a ticket for the amphitheater any more.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Stranger In The House (Single) (Radar Records SAM83 1978) 320kbps
- Stranger In The House
- Neat, Neat, Neat
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