At least that's how they talk. They've got this vision. And the vision is to put, you know, a game where Grandma gets run over by a truck on every video screen in America, and they're going to do it. They have mastered the art of talking about life as a visionary activity. I think we all talk that way.
People are idealistic.
The journalists I know are idealistic about small-scale things, about community idealism. You see a lot of good reporting about local initiatives. Jonathan Alter at Newsweek is constantly writing about volunteering. But I don't see the sense of selfless, the sense of noblesse oblige government service that the Protestant establishment had at its best. I'm no better than anyone else in this regard.