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Notes 287On the alleged decline of civic engagement, for two contrastingviews, see Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revivalof American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster,2000); and Everett Carll Ladd, The Ladd Report (New York: FreePress, 1999).On the decline of happiness, see Robert E. Lane, The Loss ofHappiness in Market Democracies (New Haven: Yale UniversityPress, 2000).For some insightful history of thought on market-system effects,see Albert O. Hirschman, “Rival Interpretations of MarketSociety,” Journal of Economic Literature 20 (December 1988):146–84.Chapter 15. Persuading the MassesSome estimates of advertising expenditure, both U.S. and global,are in David C. Korten, The Post Corporate World: Life After Capitalism(West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian, 1999), 32ff. A brief buthighly insightful analysis of distraction and obfuscation is NeilPostman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in theAge of Show Business (New York: Vintage, 1986).On the public-relations content of news, see Sharon Beder,Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (WhiteRiver Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1998), 197.For the alternative ways (idols, insinuations, manufacturedwill, and others) in which the concept of impairment of thoughthas been formulated, see Neal Wood, The Politics of Locke’s Philosophy:A Social Study of “An Essay Concerning Public Understanding”(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 95;Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942), 256–64; Jürgen Habermas,Knowledge and Human Interest (Boston: Beacon, 1971), chapters3 and 9; and E. E. Schattschneider, Semisovereign People: A Realist’sGuide to Democracy in America (New York: Holt, Rinehartand Winston, 1960).