My business is the analytical framework.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.