The Illusion of Political Involvement

A society that masquerades as though it's not totalitarian gives its citizens the illusion of freedom without them actually having any choice in the matter at all. Marcusa would say that one of the inevitable by products of a capitalist system is the conflation of political power with money. Even if you 're the most well intentioned individual in the world, to even be able to sit on the committees influential enough to change these things will take 20 years spent fund raising.