#170- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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Mass Communication Is Not in the Hands of Regular People
We do not have the proper virtues developed to deal with constant news, constant entertainment. Media prior to maybe 1920 was slow and didn't require a lot of capital. Once you're there, now you have to generate content. Poor Richard Tomanek is content. He's just writing. So when he was going to fill a few column inches, it would be interesting and better than Walter Winkle. You know, but now capital, so much capital is required that the media isn't part of mainstream culture. It's really not middle class people don't have a damn thing to do with movies or television or radio or Spotify or whatever. Podcasts like we're doing are probably about the
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