There is no stability; only politics. The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.

Damaged Hologram: --alled Reapers. [static]... the Citadel... [static] ...overwhelmed... [static] ...only hope... [static]... Damaged Hologram: --[static] act of desperation... [static] ... the Conduit... [static] ... all is lost [static] Damaged Hologram: ...cannot be stopped... [static] ...cannot be stopped... [static]

In America we want things different; hedge-rows full of bright-berried bushes and varied autumn colors; meadows full of pepperidges, liquidambars, and thorns […] .

The multimediatization of the lifeworld does not, as is often suggested, reduce people to solipsistic engagement with the world—living in their own personal information space or what Peter Sloterdijk describes as the bubble of our individualized media sphere (2004).