Abandoned dreams of artistic achievement, replaced by a television show fraught with vapid comments by its principals, fraudulent vérité and a highlight segment called "Vomit at the Coke Party".
In a related development, the cable news networks announced the results of research which showed that their audiences would shrink by 65% once there were no campaigns to cover, electoral maps to play with, results to pick apart and vapid comments to make in their desperate attempts to build audiences.
This vapid commentary sets the tone for this vapid soap about vapid young single heterosexual friends living in the trendy Silver Lake section of Los Angeles.
"Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless," he writes, "but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction".If this criticism of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia had come from an outsider a dyed-in-the-wool technophobe then nobody would have paid much attention.
At a meeting this week of the governing council of the Organization of American States, known normally for vapid diplomatic niceties, comments from Caribbean countries were particularly pointed.
I noted that the Sun's managing editor, Stig Abell, thought Malik's comment "vapid, pious and divorced from reality".
Dan Aquilante of New York Post commented that the song "slightly vapid but destined for radio... an optimistic piece in which Beyoncé... hits the booster rockets repeatedly".
If one person says your heroine is vapid, one person loves her, and another commented on something else...well, that's a muddle to sort though and it's up to you.
The narratives comment slyly on the difficulties of travel and the vapid nature of most travel advertising, but the installation is also a genuine attempt to relieve the boredom of walking through the corridors.
Josh Wolk of Entertainment Weekly felt that Britney and Kevin: Chaotic was Spears' "career suicide by videocam", commenting, "the truth is not only that she's vapid, but that she's self-obsessed to a dangerous degree".
Trump's security had already been goony enough to merit comment, but it was relegated to bellyaching on Twitter or vapid thinkpiece comparisons to Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, and in any case hostility for the press is a conservative staple.
