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  <title>The Age of American Unreason</title>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 24 13:21:31 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's some interesting material in this book, mostly historical, but overall it's deeply flawed. Jacoby likes to lump things together with no real justification. All TV, movies, internet content, and music which happens to be on an iPod become the scourge that is &quot;infotainment&quot;, which is to be blamed for most, if not all, of society's problems. There's nothing here to support this idea other than the author's repeated pejorative use of the dubious term. To her, books are active entertainment, while anything displayed on a video screen is passive. Since, in both cases, the real activity is what is going on in the mind of the viewer, this doesn't make a lot of sense. What makes reading a lousy book &quot;active&quot;, while watching a great movie or TV show &quot;passive&quot;? The act of turning a page? There's a lot of &quot;the medium is the message&quot; nonsense here, where Jacoby is unable to divorce content from presentation. In the end, it amounts to little more than &quot;things were better when I was growing up&quot;.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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