Technology is a fun distraction, but it's given so much more importance. There are five big TV networks, so there will be five big websites. Cable TV is bigger than network TV, but it isn't more open to different points of view. Entertainment should teach. Entertainment should move us and inspire us.
Commercials are great.
We debate the wrong things. We ask if Clinton is an adequate president, but we never ask if we need a president, or what we expect a president to do. The software companies fight their battles in courts and in Washington. People in power are sloppy, they spread their unhappiness and confusion. As I read the Grapes of Wrath, I wondered what became of the Okies.