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  • Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

    Studs Terkel (2011). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.304, The New Press