Status Updates From The Wastemakers

Reading this is torture, but helps understand why things are the way they are...

"One of the best hopes for improving television content and reducing commericalism is "pay TV"" - I suppose that's worked out with HBO and Netflix. I don't know what content he was aiming for. For me educational channels on YouTube have been much more important.

"...the lives of most Americans have become so intermeshed with acts of consumption that they tend to gain their feelings of significance in life from these acts of consumption" - Was this fair? Is this still true? Is it peculiarly American? If it is, is that because America is country fuelled by immigration, and the migrants are pursuing the American Dream.

"Today, more than a hundred thousand talented high school graduates - certified to be college material - fail to go on to college specifically because of lack of money." - the problem today, some say, has been inverted now we have too many graduates drowning in debt.

"Many scientists have long felt that salt-water conversion offers the most sensible way to make use of the slumbering genie of atomic power" - Vance doesn't have an ecological bone in his body.

"...opportunities continue to open up in such service fields as travel, insurance, restaurants, hotel and motel operation..." - which with the exception of insurance damage the environment.