Greg Snyder
January 16, 2018 ·
I agree with you that the inspiration this country gives people, its aspiration to be home to all good citizens who want to achieve some kind of a dream, and the role model it has been in the past are what are and have made this country great in the past.
At this point in time all of those qualities and features are being degraded and morphed into something quite different by those in power. In this thread I have been thinking specifically about the people who make the decisions that the economy and to a large extent society then follow.
For example, the electric car was an experiment that showed wild promise to free us from carbon back in the 70s. The decision makers at GE, I believe, made the decision to kill the electric car before that idea took off.
The automotive industry then pushed the idea of bigger and bigger gas guzzlers, SUVs, Hummers, gigantic trucks that are really more like tanks than trucks and we have wound up with freeways and streets full of vehicles that use an obscene amount of gas.
Or, another example is in communications. This country used to have a diverse palette of independent small radio stations and back then it was much more exciting and a hell of a lot more substantial and satisfying to spend time listening to the radio.
But, the powers that make decision for all the rest of us slowly, over time, found ways to pretty much ban small, independent radio stations from the airways and what we have left are mostly these crass radio stations that blast the most recent manufactured “music” and more importantly, gobs and gobs of loud, obnoxious advertisements. And these radio stations nowadays are owned mostly by less than a dozen large media conglomerates whose only motive is profit.
The FCC, industry lobbyists, Congress are all complicit in the current state of crass, commercial, in-your-face radio in this country. They have achieved complete blandness and created something that is so boring and a waste of time that I just don’t turn the radio on anymore.
It’s these kind of decisions by the big decision makers that I have been wondering about lately. How can they make so many bad decisions? And for what reason? I just don’t get it.
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