I\\’m generally pessimistic about
I’m generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America – especially with summer movies. Elmer Bernstein
Dumbing Down
At the core of
At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater. Diane Paulus
Dumbing down takes many
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you. Denis Dutton
Advocates of dumbing down
Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that ‘University Challenge’ and ‘Mastermind’ were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating. Declan Lynch
In Britain, we’ve tended
In Britain, we’ve tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle – all branding, marketing and ‘accessibility’, a word that usually means dumbing-down. David Chipperfield
The dumbing down of
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. Carl Sagan
The dumbing down of
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. Carl Sagan
Those of us with
Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader … Read more