[lbo-talk] Tower Records

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jan 4 15:34:03 PST 2007


On Jan 4, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> It seems that entertainment can be just as good opium for the
> masses as
> religion. Forget about the traffic, forget about the lack of
> efficient
> transportation, affordable health care or being one paycheck from
> homelessness, forget about the war, corruption, crime or lack of
> prospects -
> just put your earphones on and tune in.

I not only think about those things all the time, I spend a lot of my life writing, broadcasting, and agitating about them. And I still love my iPod. I just don't buy this argument at all.

Doug



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