The Popification of Politics is Weird... lets talk about it

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Kamala is brat, Trump has weird vibes and Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl half time performance was political commentary. Today we're unpacking how pop culture & politics are barely distinguishable, whether modern media has shaped this, and what the 'attention economy' means for culture.

This video was inspired by OliSUNvia, "drowning in entertainment: the age of distraction",    • drowning in entertainment: the age of dist...   - I highly recommend for a further deep dive into this topic!

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timestamps:
00:00 intro
05:16 amusing ourselves to death?
13:36 attention economy
15:32 vibes-based politics
20:31 counter-argument
23:58 counter-counter-argument
25:25 final thoughts

link to previous video:    • The Left is Eating Itself While the Rich C...  

sources:
Andrew Postman, My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World https://www.theguardian.com/media/201...
Marine Tanguy, We live in a visual world
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opini...
Donna Ferguson,  World’s oldest national newspaper prints final edition after 320 years
https://www.theguardian.com/media/202...
Chris Hayes, You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
Shirley Li, The Brat-ification of Kamala Harris
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/a...
Jess Carter Morley, ‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2...
Robert Marion & Paul Saurette, Prioritizing entertainment over substance is a dangerous trend in modern political reporting https://theconversation.com/prioritiz...
BBC, Who is Rupert Murdoch?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14078128
Politics & Rights Review, Politics & Pop Culture: The Revolutionary Dance of Influence
https://politicsrights.com/politics-p...
Charlie Warzel, The End of News https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
Helen Lewis, The ‘Mainstream Media’ Has Already Lost
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...


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