Assertion: sophistication | /r/HasProperty | all-pervasive cynicism
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text: The sophistication to which I allude has a lot to do with the breakdown of taboos, thanks to greater and greater frankness, the all-pervasive cynicism (which Peter Sloterdijk in Critique of Cynical Reason calls enlightened false consciousness), the impracticality and even undesirability from the standpoint of the mass media of keeping silence about even the most intimate aspects of social life (not to mention political scandals), and the presence of television which hides less and less of human behavior and allows young children to become aware of phenomena that a generation ago even adults never discussed among themselves.