Consumed in Disneyfication

The Homo Universalis is a dieing breed, if not extinct already. the days that Leonardo da Vinci stole corpses, created the last supper and had time to spare for mathematical matters are long gone. These days Leonardo di Caprio gets paid to delude us. He plays a part, wins an oscar and we call it art. Globally atrackting an audience Da Vinci never would.

It's the 21 first century. Louis Armstrong is downloadable on Mp3 and Niel makes his giant leap from internet to our harddrive at the stroke of a key. After our work and commute, we like a little distraction from our day to day reality. And why not? We work hard to pay for our bills and the pase of our consummation. So it's logical to sweeten the fruit of work with a little drama or Disneyfication. We check what's going on in Wisteria Lane, watch House limp around being brilliant with his cane.

The news feeds us the latest bombings and economic frustrations, internet provides us with porn, games, trivia and gossip without limitations.

Information is so easily accessible that it doesn't require any thought to get embedded in our head. Fox news is right over here. Al Jazeera is right over there. Simply because of what they repeatedly said. It's eerie how t.v. and internet know our inner fears, cultivate and nourish them so the static never clears. It's even more astounding how we swallow it whole, no research, no critical view of self at all. The powers that be state their fact. The media reports. The public tunes in, consume and eventually act.

In the age of human cloning and DNA manipulation, this is the media food chain that we feed with our hunger for thought simplification. The makers, who invent the news, benefit from our collective sloth of mind. The winner is he who gets to impregnate the media with the darkest, most charismatic denomination. When did we chose to leave self criticism and moral contemplation behind?

In the end, we are the oblivion consumer of the portrayed fear and frustration. We, the audience, that hunger for, nourish and starve the simplicity of mediafication.