/510/ Couch Potatoes to Screen Sausages ft. Ryan Zickgraf

Update: 2025-09-16

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On critiques of entertainment.

New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contemporary cases.

How does consensus-age comedy like King of the Hill deal with hyperpolitics today?

Is the reliance on archetypes a problem, or inherent to all comedy?

Why is Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death still relevant?

Is the Gen X critique of 'couch potatoes' and TV-watching similar to today's techlash?

Have we become insensible to contradiction?

Links:

We’re still distracting ourselves to death, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

King of the Hill reboot is ill-suited to the Trump age, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

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