[the invisib1e hand]

television, the movies...they don’t affect anyone.

[Borges]

Stupid people will be stupid no matter.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Christina grew up with her ‘very middle class parents’ in a five-bedroom Hertfordshire country pile where she’d enjoy riding her pony and visiting Ascot and Henley every year.”

I think this was a telltale sign of where the trouble began.

[a fool in paradise]

To hear Hollywood tell it, you can curse, fornicate, et al and it has no influence on the culture but product placement and characters who smoke “do” influence audiences...