Song of the day, Dec 23rd, 2005

23rd Dec at 5 pm- Ithaca is dead...Cornell is deserted.....Pink Floyd comes to mind (should leave lab before I get depressed ;0)).

Song: Amused to Death
Artist: Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd)
Album: Amused to Death (1992)
Check out the lyrics: http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/index.html

Here's an excerpt from a website dedicated to this anti-war singer.

Amused to Death is based on a book by Neil Postman, called "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business."

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, and offers compelling suggestions as to how to withstand the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to the show-business demands of the television age, we must recognize the ways in which the media shape our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape them to serve our hightest goals.