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It looks to me that mass media causes boredom and depression in many people. Synthesized, hyped-up, sensationalized experience has no relation to the lives we live - our lives appear second-rate by comparison.
In the mind of the rabid consumer of contemporary mass media the only people who really count are the few dozen famous folks who are incessantly shoved in our faces. Our lives appear second-rate by comparison.
The powerful stimuli provided by synthetic experience is unparalleled in our lives. It seems those who consume the most amount of mediated experience are also the most bored and depressed individuals.
We desire and our desires are manipulated to a degree that we are filled with cognitive dissonance. On the one hand our expectations are expanded beyond what we can acheive. On the other hand, the sinking feeling that we will fail to rise to stellar heights is epidemic.
The real irony of all this is the entire panoply of deteriorative media experiences are referred to as "entertainment."
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