Television replaced moral guidance with emotional guidance and redemptive hugs

Evidence

I nicked that off Mark Ravenhill who wrote a very good piece which said that if you analyse television now it’s a system of guidance – it tells you who is having the Bad Feelings and who is having the Good Feelings. And the person who is having the Bad Feelings is redeemed through a “hugs and kisses” moment at the end. It really is a system not of moral guidance, but of emotional guidance. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 153

Categorization

• XREF: Ravenhill’s TV-as-emotional-guidance system directly parallels Fraser’s notion from my Berlin notes of the heart as an organ of political meaning. — connects to: Television creates a false intimacy that substitutes for real community engagement — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 837; TV dramas evoke sympathy, remorse, and mourning to position viewers as benevolent — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 338; Unexpressed emotion and retained dignity move audiences more than drama does — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 443 (+2 more)

Related

• TV dramas evoke sympathy, remorse, and mourning to position viewers as benevolent (similarity 0.80)
• Audiences crave permission to feel suppressed emotions more than persuasion (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• TV dramas evoke sympathy, remorse, and mourning to position viewers as benevolent #corroborates (0.85) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 338
• Television creates a false intimacy that substitutes for real community engagement #corroborates (0.80) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 837
• TV talk shows deliberately engineer an illusion of intimacy with audiences #exemplifies (0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 774
• Unexpressed emotion and retained dignity move audiences more than drama does #contradicts (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 443
• Audiences crave permission to feel suppressed emotions more than persuasion #corroborates (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 392