Just wanted to add a note about a new book I'm reading by Thomas Frank, editor of _The Baffler_. It's called _One Market Under God_.
The book opens with a preface about the telecommunications act.
Frank shows how the act, which essentially sold the airwaves to private interests, signalled a trend of anti-democratic practices which were and are now championed by the masses. Kind-of like successive mergers shouldn't really surprise us b/c the idea of providing "pro-democratic" or populist services belongs more to marketing than to design. And this marketing is pervasive!
The book is kind-of an early history of nineties democracy/globalization/dotcom era, well-written.
ghostoroy
who lives suspiciously close to Mr. Frank
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Just wanted to add a note about a new book I'm reading by Thomas Frank, editor of _The Baffler_. It's called _One Market Under God_. The book opens with a preface about the telecommunications act. Frank shows how the act, which essentially sold the airwaves to private interests, signalled a trend of anti-democratic practices which were and are now championed by the masses. Kind-of like successive mergers shouldn't really surprise us b/c the idea of providing "pro-democratic" or populist services belongs more to marketing than to design. And this marketing is pervasive! The book is kind-of an early history of nineties democracy/globalization/dotcom era, well-written. ghostoroy who lives suspiciously close to Mr. Frank