News For the Next Generation: Imagine: "

“In a culture that values commerce above all other things,” he continued, “the imaginative potential of illustration has become irrelevant . . . . Illustration is now too idiosyncratic.” One might go a step further. Idiosyncrasy takes time to unravel. It takes an act of interpretation. There is danger implicit in interpretation. It gives the audience time to think, time to get upset, and, perhaps, to get offended."

Here is a sort of representation through specific examples of how the corporate mentality that accompanies the conglomeration of media outlets into business oligarchies and monopolies is paralyzing thought and becoming more powerful than the overt censorship of supposedly fascist states.