大象传媒

As a matter of fact I don't have a story specific for the picture. For the picture belongs in fact to the Dear Mom and Dad story. But I'm allowed to have one picture per story.
This is interesting , in my opinion, to read for us living nowadays in a world that costed 50 million lives before World War 2 ended with V.E. Day in 1945.
It's from an LP that I bought long ago .Its from a German Pop-group popular in the 80's of the last century.
Propaganda now. 'Every day our cause becomes clearer and people get smarter'
"One of the most remarkable characteristics of human nature," writes Lotze, "is, alongside so much selfishness in specific instances, the freedom from envy which the past displays towards the future." Reflection shows us that our image of happiness is thoroughly coloured by the time to which the course of our existence has assigned us. The kind of happiness that could arouse envy in us exists only in the air we have breathed, among people we could have talked to, women who could have given themselves to us. In other words, our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history. The past carries with it a temporal index by which it is referred to redemption. There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply. Historical materialists are aware of that.
-Without love beauty and danger it would almost be easy to live -
The news item's role is probably that of preserving within contemporary society the ambiguity of the rational and the irrational, the comprehensible and unfathomable, and this ambiguity is historically necessary as man still needs signs (which reassure him) but also signs which are uncertain in content (which make him irresponsible...)
This is a twilight condition of consciousness : neihter high noon nor tender night. And precisely for this reason our relationship with mass culture is itself interminable. There can be no conclusion or certainty, where the very structure of communication has founded the reign of perplexity, of dissociation, of procrastination ' The consumers relation with the real world, with politics, history and culture is not one of interest, investment or engaged responsibility - rather, it is one of curiosity....One must try everything in fact man in consumer society is tormented by the fear of 'missing' something, any enjoyment whatsoever....It is no longer desire or even taste or specific inclination that is in play, it is a generalised curiosity motivated by a widespread anxiety' -the all pervasive anxiety of Riesman's radar-man, always ready to pick up signals from the outside world and ,especially, always uncertain as regards their decipherment. This is no longer the anxiety described in 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle', which was motivated by the fear of trauma, that is , by the conviction that the outside world is fundamentally hostile to the individual. It is no longer the state of mind of who lives in the constant expectation of danger. It is the anxiety of always feeling on the verge of - but only on the verge of - finally grasping the object of desire, the meaning of life, the rules of the game.

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