ACROSS
4The MEME is to appreciate the absurdity of our attempts to appear in control in a world forever slipping out of our (clutch)
6The misfortune of others tastes like what comes after A's from
8MEMES seem isolating and divisive, but one testifies to our need to not feel alone in our disappointments, but to seek the consolations of being part of a community of the
11TV might stand out as a too-easy root cause of the breakdown in national (civilized conduct)
13Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be (contentious, disputed, contended, at issue, moot, disputable debatable or this at all?
14For we live but to make (game) for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our shame
DOWN
1Are we living in the age of stupid? The (a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography) of the idiot?
2Some thinks it's (bad) to see others suffer does one
3Will the next TV (better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual) be called The Collapse of Reality Itself?
5To some, a diabolical delight is in other people’s state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship
7Has American television has made the country what it is (currently) — fat, lazy, uninterested, selfish, intellectually comatose and uninspired?
9When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the IDEA of objective reality?
10The meaning of this word is a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
12Is (TELEVISION) a warped version of reality shaping our culture, or is it just a reflection of it?