Sleepwalking During War-Time

Are we all too distracted by spectacle to take any meaningful action to prevent a dangerous escalation over Ukraine?

Slim Pickens riding a nuclear warhead to certain Armageddon in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire Dr. Strangelove

When media critic Neil Postman wrote his book Amusing Ourselves To Death, he couldn’t have known that the very week that the world’s two greatest nuclear powers lurched closer to full-scale war, much of our attention would…