Contextualizing the iPod Nano Craze

The brilliant Michael Ventura, on why every properous American shares a criminal guilt for the world's suffering:

For more than a century we've depended upon thinly veiled criminality for our good fortune, and we damn well are implicated.... Which is the underlying reason most Americans want to know nothing about their governance. To know would be to admit responsibility. To admit responsibility would put one in the moral dilemma of either taking action toward a more just world and thereby ultimately undermining one's own prosperity, or ignoring it all in the desperate attempt to live happily ever after.

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