Tittytainment

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Tittytainment (often also tittitainment ) is a word formation from English titty (slang for bosom ) and entertainment (entertainment). The term stands for the assumption that due to increasing productivity a large part of the world population will be released from the production of services and goods in the future and will then live on transfer payments . In order to "calm down" this part of the population, it must be "sprinkled" with the media .

Concept history

This term is attributed to Zbigniew Brzeziński , the former national security advisor to US President Jimmy Carter . He is said to have coined it in 1995 at a meeting of the Global Braintrust .

Due to the growth in productivity, according to the forecast on which the catchphrase is based , (paid) work is running out. In the future, 20% of the world's population would be sufficient to provide or produce all the services and goods required. The remaining 80% of the population would then have to live on transfer payments. As the crying baby is given the breast, so the assertion, the people superfluous in the production have to be “kept happy” with trivial entertainment (television, Internet, sexualized entertainment, etc.).

See also

literature

  • Entry Tittytainment in Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor (Ed.): The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 9781317372516
  • David Rowan: A Glossary for the 90s . Prion Books, 1998, p. 128, ISBN 9781853752827
  • Pedagogical Institute of the German Language Group, Bolzano: The globalization trap . 2002 ( online [accessed March 23, 2013]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann : Die Globalisierungsfalle , Rowohlt 1996, p. 13 ff.
  2. ↑ emigration. Is your job in danger too? In: stern. dated April 7, 2004
  3. ↑ "I would rather hurt fewer people" . In: stern. dated July 14, 2004