I absolutely agree. I think that prediction’s right on. And I’ll make another one as well: More Court TV! Court TV gets dismissed as mere voyeurism, but voyeurism is never mere: you’re only voyeuristic about things that you are very interested in. You’re not voyeuristic about things that bore you. I think what Court TV indicates is that people are fascinated by these new moral problems that are coming up.
Each one of those big trials - William Kennedy Smith, the Menendez brothers, Lorena Bobbitt, and now O.J. Simpson - represents critical moral issues. What are the relationships between people at the moment? Are moral relationships the same as legal ones? Or do they overlap? Or are they different? I think people are fascinated by these problems, and I’m glad they are. That’s another big future as well.
Today, gossip is philosophy.
Brian Eno
