Oct 19, 2011 07:27
Last night I dreamt of a trailer for The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo where Hollywood had turned it into a romantic comedy about a (blonde) Happy Hooker who teaches a sad man to love again by having sex with everyone in his town while dressed in funny costumes. Then I woke up, thought a bit about the differences between the Swedish and American posters for the ACTUAL film, and pop, just like that, came up with a brief sentence that explains my entire problem with the fannish/bloggish approach to the media model.
Which is this: media representations of people are symptoms of societal attitudes.
Soothing symptoms makes you feel better but doesn't remove the cause, and removing the cause would remove the symptoms as well. I am pretty sure the media model exists so that people can feel self-righteous about watching TV.
Christ, that's the rubbish that gets into my brain the minute I wake up? Clearly I need to drink more.
dreams,
epic fail,
politics