PoliticsAmericans: A Frustrated People.Tue, 13 Apr 1993 Americans are the most generous people on earth, and the most free. I would agree with that statement, but why is it then that the American people feel so frustrated with their institutions of government and education. --- The majority of Americans are tired of hearing one advocate after another on their TV's, proselytizing for one law or another. The truth is that the system is not responsive to the needs to the governed. It is a system which promotes the emasculation of the electorate rather that its empowerment. There is only a brief moment when the people matter, in the moment of pulling the electoral lever. After that, the PC cons take over and turn black into white, change into reaction and hope into despair.---
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Electronic MediaCultural SaturationThu, 11 Aug 1994 We have so many icons to remember these days. It seems that we even have to specialize in either sports, entertainment or music. Quite aside to know political figures and their guiding sounds.--- Movies come like torrential summer rains. One after the other, into our temporal memory. No way to remember them next summer, save for the one or two who will "win" the race for the Oscar. --- Our culture has become saturated with icons and slogans, with authors and composers, with hitters and pitchers and sliders. It is the sheer numbers of them, who is to even try to keep track of them all?
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