I Believe Democracy Requires A 'sacred Contract'

Television Is A Medium. It Is Neither Rare Nor Well Done.

Our Children Are Being Raised By Appliances.

Reagan's Story Of Freedom Superficially Alludes To The Founding Fathers, But Its Substance Comes From The Gilded Age, Devised By Apologists For The Robber Barons. It Is Posed Abstractly As The Freedom Of The Individual From Government Control A Jeffersonian Ideal At The Roots Of Our Bill Of Rights, To Be Sure. But What It Meant In Politics A Century Later, And Still Means Today, Is The Freedom To Accumulate Wealth Without Social Or Democratic Responsibilities And License To Buy The Political System Right Out From Everyone Else.

In Fact, So Much Of Life, As You Know, Is Serendipitous. That's Why You Better Be Prepared At Any Time For Anything, Because It May Happen To You.

How Do We Protect The Soul Of Democracy Against Bad Theology In Service Of An Imperial State?