I think talk radio is both a symptom and a problem of a social decline. Talk radio is about yelling at people and abusing them and talking over them as a way of winning an argument. It's about dumping your empathy and hating as hard as you can. It's about never leaving your own point of view, even for a moment.
And 90% of the time it's about entitled rich white guys explaining to each other how much they deserve their entitlements, and how anyone who hasn't made it as big as they have is a loser, and how brown people in faraway countries are cool to kill. It's a bully pulpit for bullies, and it legitimizes the worst kind of behavior.
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Re: There's nothing new under the sun.
Date: 2006-01-26 07:06 am (UTC)I think talk radio is both a symptom and a problem of a social decline. Talk radio is about yelling at people and abusing them and talking over them as a way of winning an argument. It's about dumping your empathy and hating as hard as you can. It's about never leaving your own point of view, even for a moment.
And 90% of the time it's about entitled rich white guys explaining to each other how much they deserve their entitlements, and how anyone who hasn't made it as big as they have is a loser, and how brown people in faraway countries are cool to kill. It's a bully pulpit for bullies, and it legitimizes the worst kind of behavior.
Yeah.
Date: 2006-01-26 04:27 pm (UTC)I don't like it either. Listening pisses me off. The tone of their speech does it. I pick up on the anger and it ruins my mood.