IT WAS MURDER! (OR: How Entertainment Killed Reality Off for Good)

Reality – for those of you who haven’t seen The Truman Show – is dead. Kaput. Finished. Life – real life, the warp and woof of reality – has been fatally invaded by the virus of "entertainment." As a result, reality has given way to "postreality," a strange media-ized consciousness which avoids the various threats of reality (boredom, chaos) by dressing itself always in the costumes of fantasy (celebrity, sex, violence). Reality – direct, unaltered experience – seems to have been murdered, killed by a high-tech conspiracy.
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