Australian comedy in an American media dominated world.
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We need only look at the recent US election to see just how deeply invested we are in American culture as a result of our disproportionate consumption of American media. The sheer scale and spectacle of the 2020 U.S. election has whipped previously apolitical Australian’s on my social media feeds into outspoken fervour. I find myself equally guilty, since the American politic has inspired a level of engagement that I should be applying to preventing catastrophes in my own backyard. The Australian predilection for following a foreign race featuring a cartoonish buffoon, over our own politicians villainy, is both easy to criticise and to understand. According to Historian, public intellectual and author Yuval Noah Harari;
Australian comedy in an American media dominated world.
Australian comedy in an American media…
Australian comedy in an American media dominated world.
We need only look at the recent US election to see just how deeply invested we are in American culture as a result of our disproportionate consumption of American media. The sheer scale and spectacle of the 2020 U.S. election has whipped previously apolitical Australian’s on my social media feeds into outspoken fervour. I find myself equally guilty, since the American politic has inspired a level of engagement that I should be applying to preventing catastrophes in my own backyard. The Australian predilection for following a foreign race featuring a cartoonish buffoon, over our own politicians villainy, is both easy to criticise and to understand. According to Historian, public intellectual and author Yuval Noah Harari;