Tuesday 17 May 2011

You may have media saturation fatigue..

Today, there are more books and films and TV shows and video-games and websites and magazine articles and blog posts and emails and text messages, all of which hanging around, competing for your attention.
Without leaving your seat you can access virtually any piece of music ever recorded, download any film ever made, order any book ever written. And the end result is that you hardly experience any of it. It's too much. Too much choice to make your head spin.

If you have reached this point, then you have media saturation fatigue - a real sickness, look it up. Here are some of the symptoms if you are unsure of whether you are at this point.
  • You feel like you want to be told what to read, watch and listen to if you are If you agree with these points then read on.
  • You want all your TV channels removed and replaced by a single electro-pipe delivering one programme or movie a day
  • You want all mp3's deleted and replaced with one unskippable radio station playing one song after another
*If this is how you feel and want to make sense of it all, then read the rest of this blog to alleviate symptoms*

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