Ragg It: September 2010

The attendees to this meeting (Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Havel, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, etc.) arrived[1] at the conclusion that a 20:80 society is inevitable. This means that the work provided by 20% of the world population would be sufficient to sustain the world economy, while the other 80% would be without work or opportunities, nourishing a growing frustration.

This is where Brzezinski's concept came into play. Brzezinski suggested that "tittytainment," a mix of physical and psychological methods, be used to control people's frustration and predictable protests. He then explained the term as being a portmanteau fused from titty and entertainment, alluding to the sleeping and lethargic effect that is produced when a baby is breastfed.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittytainment

At the other end, are those who argue that globalisation is an unmitigated disaster, replacing the social-democratic prosperity of postwar Europe with a plutocratic nightmare.[5] According to those taking this view, globalisation will produce a '20:80 society', in which the benefits of change will be experienced by transnational corporations and the highly skilled 20 per cent of the workforce they need.[6] For the other 80 per cent, a bleak outlook of life bouncing between unemployment and insecure employment is presented. The restive masses making up this 80 per cent will be kept quiet with a mixture of (increasingly inadequate) welfare payments and televised pap, described by Zbigniew Brzezinski as 'tittytainment' - the reference is to the pacifying effect, rather than to the pornographic component, of the TV diet.[7] In sum, this view presents the globalised world as one of the haves and the have-nots. For the have-nots, sage advice offered by some is that in these circumstances it will be better to 'give a poor man a fishing rod, not fish - teach him how to make a living, not take a handout.'[8]
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v9n3/pinto93_text.html#INTRODUCTION_T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

Ragg It

Patch Adams

Buckaroo Banzai

Danaë

Capturing the Atomic Bomb on Film

Nasty Nets

The Secret Museum of Mankind

Dan Hays

The Periodic Table of Videos

Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects

Yuri Suzuki

Brad Troemel

Eva Grubinger

The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

Allan Watts

Paul Chan

Euan Macdonald

Goshka Macuga

Bernadette Corporation

Julika Rudelius

Nicolas de Staël

Raquel Feliciano

Rui Toscano

Dino Meira

Tittytainment