“Perhaps another reason people express anger, especially in the online realm, is because they allow themselves to be easily irritated by things they find bothersome or offensive, even things that have little or even no direct bearing on their lives. David Sirota calls it “the Fake Outrage Machine.” U…”— Andrea Weckerle, amazon.com
“The steady advance, and cultural power, of marketing and advertising has caused 'the displacement of a political public sphere by a depoliticized consumer culture.' And it has had the effect of creating a world of virtual communities built by advertisers and based on demographics and taste differenc…”— Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“The public sphere thus promotes ubiquitous commentators who deliberately detach themselves from the local practices out of which specific issues grow and in terms of which these issues must be resolved though some sort of committed action. What seems a virtue to detached Enlightenment reason, theref…”— Hubert Dreyfus, socrates.berkeley.edu