阅读感言3-消耗的热情

"Grievances had been partly ameliorated, therby neutralising conflic, politics had become detached from poular struggle and the masses were becoming amused consumers, indifferent to the great issues of masses were becoming amused consumers, indifferent to the great issues of the day and pre-occupied with their own every lives.....Every now and again a really big issue does capture popular attention: famine, GM food, questionable reasons for pre-emptive war, global warming and so forth. It must be said, though, these are seldom the most compelling attactions for mass popular fascination. The ups and downs of a celebrity career, minor scandals of one kind or another, sporing success and failure - these are the kinds of topic that usually generate widespread passion and from the great questions of the day or less perhaps, on the other hand, as representing deeper cultural concerns."
McGuigan,J,(2010) Cultural Analysis, London:Sage
明星八卦就算了，现在连芙蓉姐姐，凤姐，小月月都值得拿来消耗我们的热情了。本应该有更好的地方施展和宣泄的。