Quote from The Onion AV Club:
"As a consumeritizen of a capitalist Republic, I feel duty-bound to see movies that qualify as big pop culture events, just as I feel obligated to listen to the big summer songs and familiarize myself with the big TV shows everyone’s talking about. It’s the price of entry to be a proud, opinionated participant in the wonderful world of popular culture."
Somehow I found this quote worthy of saving. "consumeritizen" seems quite appropriate. I don't remember where I read it, but something I read recently stated that it's not politics that runs the world now, but that it's economics. It does ring true when we see wars fought for basically economic reasons, when foreign policy is determined by economic parameters, when we "sanction" nations by economic means, and when one primary means by which we fight terrorism is to cut off their money supply.
More thoughts on this later...
