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Should astronauts become role models again?
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite controls the mass media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme that will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island................Mark Gatiss has noted that the Artsex and Foodshow programmes that also appear in the play "ingeniously depicted the future of lowest common denominator TV".
What are you comparing it to.? The beatles? Depeche mode? The spice girls? Vapid by the decade.50s the teddies60s the swingers70s the hippies80s the new romantics90s generation x2000s millenialsAnd then the woke generation you find so puerile. Because they are movements of children governed by their hormones, which at the end of the day is sex as is seen in the dress sense of the aforementioned artists, the artists also seem to have a recconing and reinvention once they become too old. Write a book on parenthood, do a dutiful act and you are then a fully fledged member of the establishment.
Fact is that the world is run by a secretive cadre of jazz musicians - the guys with hats and dark glasses. Now and again we send a bunch of pensioners to the center stage at a festival and expose the kids to a 12 bar blues to remind them who's the daddy here. Any sign of dissent is quelled by Storm Trooper Tina Turner giving them 16 bars of high-heeled gymnastics or Dolly Parton reminding them that Granny knows what's best.
I wouldn't blame antisocial media (the stuff that makes people look at their phones instead of each other) for a lack of recognisable culture. It's more to do with the rapidly falling cost of making and broadcasting advertisements. There's only so much actual talent in any generation, and the more radio and TV channels you have, the thinner you have to spread that talent to fill the gaps between the adverts.