The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good. . . . By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.
I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.