Thought du jour
This little quotable hit my box this morning, courtesy of the pit’s Rocket Science Editor, Dr. Mike Pecaut: “People are always willing to pay far more for entertainment than they are for science, and yet they place far far greater demands on science than they ever do on entertainment.”
That sounds about right.
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Of Course!
We have seen our broadcast media become another extension of the entertainment business. Why should we care about the triflings of science when we can watch a woman chose her new boyfriend, or Flava Flave and Sharon Stone “get it on”? There is too much of a mental process involved in considering what science is doing. Our minds have been numbed by the soma of the entertainment industry. Besides, who cares what a scientist looks like, I wanna see if Michael Jackson was wearing his new white courtroom outfit. Now, I need to go see how the Jackson trial is progressing (oh to be on THAT jury)!