We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
