Addicted to Distraction : Psychological Consequences of the Modern Mass Media.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- The medium is the message -- Contents -- Introduction -- Mass Media - Singular or Plural? -- We live in the grip of delusion -- What is the Mass Media? -- What is the problem? -- Opinionated Relativism -- Permanent Revolution -- Does the Mass media have a Leftist bias? -- The intrinsic function is just… to grow -- The paradox of Mass Media control -- The Mass Media will destroy social cohesion -- Opinionated Relativism v communism -- Chaos begets chaos -- Participation is primary -- Mass Media addiction -- System-language of the Mass Media -- Oppositional ideology of PC -- Acknowledgement of reality -- Product of, and therapy for, modernity -- Blind the people -- First-strike framing -- From hero to antihero -- Pervasive demonic perspective -- Negativism - a tool for self-cure -- The modern Luddite -- How the Mass Media learns to do harm -- Social Media = Mass Media -- The Mass Media versus religion -- The purpose of modern life: to feed the Media -- Can you handle it? -- Environmental overload makes simple minds -- The savage triviality of Mass Media morality -- The need for eternal vigilance -- How to cure an addicted society -- Escaping the colonization of small talk -- Withdrawal and detox programme -- Who needs withdrawal and detox? -- Postscript: the Jimmy Savile affair -- Technical Appendix -- Notes and references.

For most of us the Mass Media is the focus of our lives - it provides the material which is discussed and debated, it articulates our responses and it provides the framework by which a vast potential volume of material is filtered, prioritised and interpreted.

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