Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

Annals of the Homestarmy

Monday, October 6. 2008

Posted by The Mad Giggler in Oddities

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

Shirky has a long but really interesting article on what people are doing in their spare time. There's a lot there, but AoD found this comment to be "the cream" of the article:

Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.

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