Premise: The cheery, professional and seasoned host of a community television program that looks at children’s toys is frustrated when the privileged son of the network president’s privileged slacker son is sent to co-host the holiday special with her.
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Premise: A rural couple’s life is very simple and they are very easily amused by the smallest incidents.
Premise: Two subordinates pitch TV show ideas to the station president and his slacker son.
Premise: A tactical military group gather together before a final battle against the boss bad guy.
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About ten years ago I wrote an essay in which I posited that modern consumer culture (and by extension, society at large) was dictated by five maxims:
The Best Of
Everything
All The Time
For ME
Right Now!
A decade later, these ideas have not only maintained their stronghold over the public, but have become increasingly important in corporate strategy. To decry them would be to cast aspersion on the notion of convenience itself, but they’ve nurtured several problematic tendencies of the human spirit that ought to be brought to light. Among these are a massively deteriorated wellspring of creativity, a pervasive laziness, and perhaps most harmful, a dangerously burgeoning sense of collective entitlement.
To cover them all within one article would make for an incredibly dense read, so each portion will be covered separately. Here’s a cursory look at what each post will cover:
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