From creativity to creation a fast paced society
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From Creativity to Creation--A fast-paced society
It is Saturday night. Prime Time. The flickering of switching channels illuminates millions of living rooms worldwide. In between war sequences, charity events, toothpaste commercials and talkshows, people are looking for perfect temporary entertainment and something that distracts them from the cruelties in the world and the commonness of their own little lives. Day by day millions of passive consumers get hypnotised by created realities flashing on their private screens or by stories of individual destinies on the big screens of movie theatres, built up around unrealistic stereotypes. The video place around the corner enlists "Video in, commonness out!", which precisely expresses what the capitalistic entertainment industry is about today: success through the deflection of commonness regardless of quality. This phenomenon, which nowadays appears on nearly every level of the entertainment-, information- and mass-media sector -except for a few branches of the print media which try to obtain objectivity and neutrality- has its roots in the rapid establishment of Hollywood strategies, whose aim exclusively is to make money by serving the consumer's demands on the market they have created.
The play "Speed-the-Plow" by David Mamet tells a story about two Hollywood producers (Bobby Gould and Charlie Fox) whose values compete under the longing for financial success and power in the entertainment industry...