The problem is “not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience.” The result is a society that always expects to be amused and becomes incapable of engaging in serious political discourse. In particular, it is unable to separate the relevant from the irrelevant.
My most recent post on substack can be found here: We have created a monster, and it is us! (global-climate-compensation.org)