1960. Philip Roth “[T]he American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands full in trying to understand, and then describe, and then make.

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1960

Philip Roth

“[T]he American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands full in trying to understand, and then describe, and then make credible much of the American reality. It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.... “The daily newspapers then fill one with wonder and awe: is it possible? is it happening? And of course with sickness and despair.”--Philip Roth, “Writing American Fiction” (1960)

Daniel Boorstin ( )

“When we pick up our newspaper at breakfast, we expect, we even demand that it bring us momentous events since the night before. We turn on our car radio as we drive to work and expect "news" to have occurred since the morning paper went to press. Returning in the evening, we expect our house not only to shelter us, to keep us warm in the winter and cool in the summer, but to relax us, to dignify us, to encompass us with soft music and interesting hobbies, to be a playground, a theater, and a bar. We expect our two week vacation to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and effortless. We expect a faraway atmosphere if we go to a nearby place; and we expect everything to be relaxing, sanitary, and Americanized if we go to a faraway place. We expect new heroes every month, a new literary masterpiece every week, a rare sensation every night.... We expect everything and anything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical.... We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and to be God.” (continued)

“ Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people been more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could possibly offer. ” --Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1960)

Responding to 9/11

“A character in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags said that the difference between prewar and postwar life was that, prewar, if one thing went wrong the day was ruined; postwar, if one thing went right the day would be made. America is a prewar country, psychologically unprepared for one thing to go wrong.” Anthony Burgess, "Is America Falling Apart?" xxxxxxxxxx

The Proliferation of News Satire

Borat (Sasha Baron Cohen)

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Andy Borowitz

The Chocolate Ration Double-Think “Big Brother is You Watching”--Mark Crispin Miller