Journalism Has A Special, Hallowed Place For

They, The Conservatives, Are The Real Outsides, They Tell Us, Gazing With Disgust Upon The Ludicrous Manners Of The High And Mighty. Or, They Tell Us, They Are Rough-and-ready Proles, Laughing Along With Us At The Efforts Of Our Social "betters" To Reform And Improve Us. That They Are Often, In Fact, People Of Privilege Doing Their Utmost To Boost The Fortunes Of A Political Party That Is The Traditional Tool Of The Privileged Is A Contradiction That Does Not Trouble Them.

Vibrancy Is So Universally Desirable, So Totemic In Its Powers, That Even Though We Aren't Sure What The Word Means, We Know The Quality It Designates Must Be Cultivated. The Vibrant, We Believe, Is What Makes Certain Cities Flourish.

Mounting A Campaign Against Plutocracy Makes As Much Sense To The Typical Washington Liberal As Would Circulating A Petition Against Gravity. What Our Modernized Liberal Leaders Offer Is Not Confrontation But A Kind Of Therapy For Those Flattened By The Free-market Hurricane: They Counsel Us To Accept The Inevitability Of The Situation.

While Democrats Fussed With The Details Of Health Care Reforms, Conservatives Spent Months Telling The Nation That The Real Issue Is Freedom, That What's On The Line Is American Liberty Itself.

These Days, Of Course, The Focus Of Talk About Popular Liberation Through Products Is Mostly Associated With The Internet. I've Been Collecting Computer Ads And Ads Dealing With Internet Industries.