[Savage Beast]

Years ago, I predicted that the constancy of television would eventually cause the public to demand programming of higher and higher quality until the Shakespeares, Bachs, and Sophocleses out there, instead of playing pinball machines, would begin satisfying the enlightened public's demand for great creative works.

I reasoned that, throughout history, wherever people had had ample leisure and resources, they had ultimately gravitated to fine art--that the human intellect, when not occupied with basic needs and survival, demanded finer and finer art to satisfy it--and that this would ultimate force an explosion of fine art from television.

I was wrong.

[WIladyconservative]

I reasoned that, throughout history, wherever people had had ample leisure and resources, they had ultimately gravitated to fine art . . .

Oh, I wish that this were so.

Seems ample leisure time leads straight to reality TV.

We're doomed.

[Kenny Bunk]

Beast, like don't take all so personnally, dyude.

The phenomenon you noticed was documented by Adam Smith who said "Bad money drives out good." We could have straightened him out by pointing out that his observation is not limited to Economics. In fact, it's not limited at all.

Nowadays, Adam Smith is a an online university that hands out degrees based on your life experience as evaluated by a peer review group of your own choosing. Gotta go now, drinking Bud Lite and watching "Survivor."