Every Man for Himself: Why Consumer Culture Killed Social Trust
― I read an interesting book once that linked commercialization and social distrust within a society. The correleation showed that television watching, a device which plays a pivital role in the commercialization of a culture, had a negative correlation with social trust. This means that the more television people watched, the less social trust they had. But television itself is really the representative and propaganda machine of commercialism; the television tells us what to buy, what to like, [...].
