Clones FINAL Edition
The sameness of life is becoming depressing, and inescapable. One longs for the surprises of uncertainty. Where is the pleasure in driving a superhighway that is like all the throughways scattered throughout this broad land? Being hustled through Georgia on multiple lanes is no different now than pa...
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| Published in | The Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Baltimore, Md
Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
22.11.1993
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The sameness of life is becoming depressing, and inescapable. One longs for the surprises of uncertainty. Where is the pleasure in driving a superhighway that is like all the throughways scattered throughout this broad land? Being hustled through Georgia on multiple lanes is no different now than passing through Pennsylvania or, regrettably, Western Maryland. Who would know by this swift passage that reveals only others in identical haste whether you were in South Carolina or Massachusetts? Topography sometimes offers a slight hint of how someplace is not like what you left, but who has time to look. In our tumbling descent toward universal sameness the pleasure of listening to regional dialects and accents has been taken from us by the homogenizing ubiquity of television. We not only look alike in our jeans and running shoes but talk the same way. The tedious banalities of talk radio are now the same in Idaho as in West Texas: the ill-informed misinforming the uninformed. A shopping center in Tucson is no different from one in Omaha. Communication, once a lovely, companionable word, now only an electronic necessity and an obsession of confessional talk television, has made it so. |
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| ISSN: | 1930-8965 |