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I want to write an analytical and rhetorical paper on "unhealthy entertainment", but I don't want to base the argument merely moral disapproval. Any critique of art and media about it being bad for your, or an alternative being the better option, is likely going to only be disregarded as sensationalist or something. My issue is not really just that these examples (which I am withholding here) are bad for your entertainment diet, but are manipulative in very transparent ways. Does anyone have any suggestions for pitfalls to avoid in constructing an argument like this? I don't want to say we need to ban one type and make more of another, but just to point out the existence of something insidious and ubiquitous.

>> No.11037522

Read Adorno's Culture Industry

and David Foster Wallace's E Unibus Pluram

And Marshall McLuhan

>> No.11037524

>>11037518

>rhetorical

You evidently have no idea what the word means

>> No.11037531

>>11037524
>rhetorical
I'm sure you understand me either way.

>>11037522
Thanks for the suggestions. I've encountered some of these, but will take a look at the others.

>> No.11037833

>>11037518
>I want to write the word degenerate as many times as possible, but on paper instead of on 4chan

>> No.11037873

>>11037833
maybe I do.

>> No.11037931

>>11037522
>Adorno's Culture Industry
this is really interesting so far

>> No.11037940

>>11037518
unhealthy is not the right word here
perhaps.. MANIPULATIVE?

>> No.11037947

>>11037940
Yes, I have also deliberated over this word. I have gone with manipulative, insidious and pervasive, cheap and transparent.

>> No.11038921
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11038921

Plato's Republic.
remember, no flutes

>> No.11039286

>>11038921
As far as this is concerned with being aware of illusions, hollow connections to the divine, yes.

>> No.11039698

>>11037518
I suppose one of the things that would make media bad if it is addictive and exploitative. Just as it is possible to be addicted to gambling, internet addiction through MMOs and such is bad too. It is hard to argue such media is bad in of itself. But an addictive and one sided filter bubble is definitely bad.