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«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»

Author: Jean Baudrillard | Keywords: abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point

«RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: bystander, bystanders, Popular entertainment, riot

«Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? It's a beautiful world all right.»

Author: Bill Watterson (Author) | Keywords: all right, beer, Christmas, cola, consumption, entertainment, fast food, guessed, harmoniously, mix, popular, Popular entertainment, spirituality, touching

«What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.»

Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: consumed, dish, entertainment, intended, mass media, media, new media, offers, Popular entertainment, replaced

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