Find an Intelectual celebrity and have them pictured reading it on holiday (or one who wants to appear as intelectual)?
(The first sentance is serious, the second not so) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
As to how, I don't know. I do believe that there is a slow cumulative effect going on (as always) which will one day lead to a tipping point. The question is: can we do anything to accelerate toward that destinaton? You can't be me, I'm taken
Set a Episodic series, a la The West Wing or Twin Peaks, in 'ETopia' demonstrating the very real problems, successes, inter-personal foo-foo, external conflicts, & etc and how the community deals with them, or fails to deal with them. Perhaps intermixing "Reality footage" with the "Fictional footage?"
I freely admit I know very little about the actuality of show business but it seems to me the primary 'hump' a mass media show needs to get over is audience identification and emotional involvement with the characters.
So ...
Perhaps Northern Exposure's sense of life, sitz im leben, would be a better paradigm?
And, taking off from something ceeb suggested, as a tie-in create a Second Life virtual reality that viewers could join (for a fee?) so they could interact with the show?
You could set it in New Mexico and star a grumpy applied epistemologist. :-0
