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How TV Ruined Your Life - “Aspiration: how TV rubs our noses in other people’s ‘superior’ lifestyles”

In this episode, Charlie Brooker explores how hollow, moneyed lifestyles have come to be so ubiquitous on TV, and how people have been made to think that their possessions mean so much. Aspirational imagery is everywhere now, and over time it has infected and bent reality and people’s expectations to unrealistic, privileged, self-serving, and off-the-Earth material standards. Brooker’s program makes particularly excellent use of archival and contemporary imagery to make his point, that “it was a collective delusion, and none of it was real.”

(Source: youtu.be)