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Trivia Shore, the Only Way Is Sedation, Made in Consumerville

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posted on 2025-06-02, 12:43 authored by Benjamin Johnson

This critical reflection will critique the contemporary consumer culture by illustrating the ways the masses are sedated by trivial issues presented in reality television in order to create “false needs” (Marcuse, 2002) solved by further consumption.

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Leeds Beckett University

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Critical Reflections: A Student Journal on Contemporary Sociological Issues

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2015

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