Digital littering without borders?

Just as entire industries profited from selling people useless products and turning resources into waste, today computer and game manufacturers and the media, video, and entertainment industries profit from filling people’s brains with useless content.

Unfortunately, the path to rational information has also become blurred in the news, where editorial news about the content of crime stories now flows smoothly into gossip of all kinds. Stars and other celebrities, were only invented in the 1940s.

On days when there are no terrorist attacks, their rate is usually 90%. The dissenting voices of reason are disappearing; one of them is literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who in 2008 turned down the German Television Award for “The garbage we have to see today” at a live gala.

“We live in an age of mass dumbing down, especially mass media dumbing down.” - Peter Scholl Latour -

In times of mental starvation, like almost every year, in connection with important sporting events, such as the Olympic Games, European Football Championships or World Championships, the public is put on a kind of intellectual diet for a few weeks.

The mood of the nation in the semifinals was just right for implementation of unwelcome legislative proposals. On the other hand, visiting the team’s booth has become a necessity for German politicians …