Storytelling

Check out the War of the Worlds thread ... I kinda was able to put together an "easy" story about radio/tv/film and then internet.

SteveG wrote: People of that generation were all waiting for the day when video killed the radio star.

I think that radio had run its course, by the mid 50's ... the images that too many people got from WW2 from many folks, and their own families, were something that was painful, and TV made a point of being goofy and then full of cartoons, to alleviate the hurt ... is how I look at it ... and when you compare this to Europe, that ... probably had TV's a good 5 to 10 years later (not everyone is/was as well off as the Americans!!!) ... I think that the whole TV thing changed people's perceptions. However, in America, TV made a point of destroying story telling, specially in soaps ... where things are so convoluted as to make a "story" literally impossible! At least like any novel.

TV, in America, destroyed story telling ... because all of a sudden, idiotic living room stuff was more valuable than literature, and/or the arts, and I think ... (I THINK) that this did not happen in Europe, because it has a history of the arts that America does not ... America destroyed its history of arts and only really started developing it during the 20th century ... when one could easily say that before that it was spotty at best, but with a couple of great things here and there ... but nothing before Edgar Allan Poe? Didn't America have a couple of hundred years before that? Where is anything ... there is almost nothing!

The internet, for America, has been great and the best historical book there is ... something that they don't teach in schools, and many places in America STILL HIDE that history!