What Drugs Haven't Destroyed, The War Against

When We Were Kids Coming Up, If You Stole Your Dad's Playboy Magazine, That Was About As Much Of An Education As You Were Gonna Get. You Finish Looking At The Centrefold And You Read 'the Playboy Adviser' That Told You About What Stereo To Buy And Something About Sex Which You Didn't Quite Understand, And You Were Still Just As Confused. Now If You're Ten The Entire World Of Human Sexuality, And A Very Misogynistic Version Of That, Is Available To You On A Laptop After A Couple Of Key Strokes. I Think It's Changed The Vernacular In The Way Men Address Women.

On A Practical Level I'm A Tv Producer And Storyteller Who's Gone About As Long As You Can Go Without Achieving A Mass Audience.

I Don't Consider Myself To Be A Crusader Of Any Sort. I Was Bystander To A Certain Number Of Newspaper Crusades. They End Badly, In Terms Of Being Either Fraudulent Or By Inspiring Legislations That Makes Things Worse. So, I Regard Myself As Someone Coming To The Campfire With The Truest Possible Narrative He Can Acquire.

Rural America's Not Coming Back. That Idea Was Lost With The Industrial Revolution. And Yet With More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Living In Metropolitan Areas, There Are Still Demagogues Who Want To Run Down The Idea Of Multiculturalism, Of Urbanity, Being The Only Future We Have. We Either Live Or Die Based On How We Live In Cities, And Our Society Is Either Going To Be Great Or Not Based On How We Perform As Creatures Of The City.

More People Pay Attention To Fiction And To Narrative Than Pay Attention To Journalism. That's Quite Sad. More People Pay Attention To Television Than To Prose. That's Equally Sad, If Not More So.