Re-reading the bulk of my work...one theme came to predominate -- it was apparent that most of my writing was about America. How much I loved my country -- that was evident -- and how much I didn't love it at all! Our noble ideal of democracy was forever being traduced, sullied, exploited, and downgraded through a non-stop reflexive patriotism. And every decade our great land lay open more and more to all the ravages of greed. So, yes, the question was alive -- would greed and the hegemony of the mediocre -- the media! -- triumph over democracy?
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