Videodrome has this unique piece of prophetic and philosophic insight: The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television. Media studies have (mo...| Tanner Hauser
David Hogg is a modern kid, raised in an atmosphere of constant social media manipulation, both from the outside (media), and from all of his peers. He is a child of Facebook. He has been raised to manipulate his classmates through posts and streams, in a generation where attention is more valuable than anything else in life, and where attention is to be grabbed by any means possible. The massacre gave him the opportunity – and even honorable motivation – to step up and play the gam...| Tanner Hauser