Watching a half-century-old discussion between Rod Serling and James Dickey about the problematic lack of intellectual quality on network television.
Like a visitor from the future, I can now answer their questions for them: TV’s abdication of its public responsibility was ultimately even more disastrous than they feared.
Stupidity and ignorance won the day, electing an insane clown as president of the United States by appealing to citizens who snarl at scientific fact and prefer to believe whatever ugly supernatural fantasy coddles their vacuity and scratches the itch of their nastiest prejudices.
Corporate executives and government officials might not have been able to stop all this from happening, but they could have tried.
Instead, they did quite the reverse.
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