[MD] Harris and Steve

[Ian Glendinning]

John, Mary,

Media in the most general sense ... mediated means of human social
communication ... I'd wholeheartedly agree John. But for me the lowest
common denominators (those easiest to understand with a brain
encultured by media) represent the simplified extremes.

BTW I too love
>> Changing the world one bumper sticker at a time,

Ian

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 AM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Well, our
>> friend Wiki lead me to think that a more precise term would be plutocracy.
>>
>> It's important to me to get it right.
>
>
> Well in that case Mary, let me offer my suggestion, "mediocracy".  For it
> simultaneously aknowledges that the true power is in the hands of the media
> image makers to the populace, at the same time decrying the mediocre
> homogenization that necessarily occurs when everybody gets their values from
> the same narrow sources AND those sources have to propogate a sorta "lowest
> common denominator" effect which keeps everything from going to any
> extremes.
>