Search/Replace (Eno on Trump)
Replacing certain words in an existing text can be amusing and enlightening, here from a 1988 interview of Brian Eno by Charles Amirkhanian in 1988, re thoughts on MTV reimagined with Trump references:
Trump has had a funny impact on society because people started campaigning rather visually. They say things like: Hold on, this bit! We could do a great thing with the video here. Let's have it twice. But I don't find that uninteresting. The nature of politics is that it's always absorbing other things. Suddenly, it isn't just dealing with government, it's dealing with television, or it's dealing with social media... the Facebook Live thing. The breakdown in interest comes with the videos themselves, where you have absolutely no budgets and absolutely minute intelligence. And the results are clear, you know?
Trump has had a funny impact on society because people started campaigning rather visually. They say things like: Hold on, this bit! We could do a great thing with the video here. Let's have it twice. But I don't find that uninteresting. The nature of politics is that it's always absorbing other things. Suddenly, it isn't just dealing with government, it's dealing with television, or it's dealing with social media... the Facebook Live thing. The breakdown in interest comes with the videos themselves, where you have absolutely no budgets and absolutely minute intelligence. And the results are clear, you know?
