There’s been tons of press about Stephen Johnson’s new book, Everything Bad is Good for You, about the actual benefits of pop culture and the possibility that contemporary TV, video games, and movies are all smarter than in the past. He thinks that shows like the Apprentice and games like Grand Theft Auto actually help us think more quickly and make us smarter. Check out what people have been saying on the web. Here’s the description on Amazon.
The media’s been eating up this book. Johnson is being interviewed by Brian Lehrer on WNYC as I write this, his book is featured on the cover of Time Out NY this week, and it’s in other places. Look out for it. This is my next assignment for myself.
i’m sure this ties in to american idol somehow…
Is the whole Katie Holmes dating Tom Cruise thing making me smarter? Because it IS breaking my brain.
You aren’t aware of it, but the Cruise/Holmes thing is designed to get Scientology into your brain. We think we’re simply following a budding relationship between a mindless soul-sucking dweeb in tighty whities and the girl next door, but he is actually L. Ron Hubbard, once again in human form, who is out to convert ALL OF US to his quacky science fiction-cum-religious mind control bullshit-o-doxy. She is hot, though.
josh, is bullshit-o-doxy even a word? i mean…
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