Lowest Common Denominator

The best places to

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The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development… Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better … Read more

To me, elitism means

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To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist. Florence King

The dumbing down of

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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

Commercial jazz, soap opera,

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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a … Read more

So much of the

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So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn’t nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn’t provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it … Read more