According to an extremely interesting study by psychologists at UCLA, fame has recently surpassed benevolence and self-acceptance as the value most emphasised by children’s television shows.
In 1997, the top five most-emphasised values were: community feeling, benevolence (being kind and helping others), image, tradition and self-acceptance.
By 2007, these had been replaced by fame, achievement, popularity, image and financial success.
Welcome to the new humanity.
[See also Andrew's post, We didn’t start the fire (but we love how we look in its light) ]
