Nick Felker on Mythryl: “It's amazing just how cynical this movie is in retrospect. But I…”

It's amazing just how cynical this movie is in retrospect. But I disagree with the author's blame on corporations. Many people who were "mad as hell" decided the right approach was to reject New Deal liberalism and vote for Reagan's neoliberalism in 1980 (even more in 1984).

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"What sociologist Ulrich Beck called 'the causes of our affliction' became ever more abstract and complex, impersonal and apocalyptic all at once. Pollution, radiation, inflation: invisible killers all. So, what do we do about it? The answer has been the same since the late 1970s."

liberalcurrents.com“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as HellPaddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.

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