Reply #16: Interesting analysis

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Unfortunately, again, the nation's airwaves (public airwaves, I might stress) are dominated by the voices of people making a lot of money off of income disparity and who have a personal stake in continuing the society of overconsumption and status-seeking. Books like The Health of Nations and Amusing Ourselves to Death might get a brief moment where the author talks about his book on some obscure talk program, but a serious, ongoing discussion of the way our society is structured is stifled because the "winners" monopolize the conversation.