Darko Kovacic comment :
An unblinking look at an entertainment-obsessed society,
Amused to Death addresses issues that have only grown in complexity and urgency
over the past two decades.
With Amused to Death, Roger Waters sounded the alarm about a society increasingly
and unthinkingly in thrall to its television screens.
Twenty-three years later, Amused to Death speaks to our present moment in ways
that could scarcely have been anticipated two decades ago. In 2015, television is just
one option in an endless array of distractions available to us anytime, anywhere,
courtesy of our laptops, tablets and smartphones.
With eyes glued to our screens,
the dilemmas and injustices of the real world can easily recede from view.
An unblinking look at an entertainment-obsessed society,
Amused to Death addresses issues that have only grown in complexity and urgency
over the past two decades.
With Amused to Death, Roger Waters sounded the alarm about a society increasingly
and unthinkingly in thrall to its television screens.
Twenty-three years later, Amused to Death speaks to our present moment in ways
that could scarcely have been anticipated two decades ago. In 2015, television is just
one option in an endless array of distractions available to us anytime, anywhere,
courtesy of our laptops, tablets and smartphones.
With eyes glued to our screens,
the dilemmas and injustices of the real world can easily recede from view.
