As the US slowly becomes N. Korea...
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I'm on HN, so I tend to want to blame the ad industry. It's pretty nebulous to think that "made in America" directly snowballed into this; so many things did. The freakier nativism in advertising really could use a break right about now though.
"Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman is 100% predictive and descriptive of how we got where we are.