“The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.”

— Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Six, In the Core Of power, p. 171

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