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Maelstrom as a metaphor to describe the kind of
media surround that constantly keeps us activated
and mesmerized by change, and so I think he would
be in love with this decade in terms of giving him a
constant repertoire of topics to discuss and to
analyze. But whether from the standpoint of his
deepest values he would love this time, probably
not, because certain traditional values he would
feel are eroding. The emergence, the use of TV
commercials in the classroom, and the increasing
commercialization of the academy and of parts of
traditional learning, and the erasure of open-
minded independence into a corporate clone-think
increasingly facing the university and knowledge—