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Originally Posted by fourWheelDrift
Some of them yes but the pressure is clearly on to dumb them down, in fact the matches have been getting shorter for decades now, there's also the sky premier league which is very much bish bash bosh, been to some of it live too, they let you in cheap and then treat you like an extra on a film set, all for the sake of the TV viewers, still at least the cheap seats are different to F1 I suppose  |
Dumbing everything down is simply appealing to the lowest common denominator. It is the opposite of excellence for its own sake but that is what mass media coverage and the modern obsession with knowledge.
Everything has become 'important' to 'everybody' but in the process nothing is important because there is too much information for everyone to process. So it becomes 'simplified' and that means dumbing it down so everyone can understand / process it in a moment or it might become insignificant, which in fact it does ...
I have written a comment on JV's talk but posted it on Old Tony's 'driver' thread and won't repeat it here.