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I don’t mind being called [the angriest man in television]. I just don’t think it means anything. How can you not have lived through the last ten years in American culture? In everything from— how can you not look at what happened on Wall Street and that’s still happening? At this gamesmanship that was the mortgage bubble, you know? That was just selling— again, selling crap and calling it gold. How can you not look at that? Or watch a city school system suffer for 20, 25— how can you— isn’t anger the appropriate response? What is the appropriate response? Ennui? You know? Alienation? You know, buying into the notion that the “Great Man” theory of history? That if we only elect the right guy? This stuff is systemic. This is how an empire is eaten from within.
— David Simon, from this Bill Moyers’ interview, which is worth listening to, if only for the numerous Frank Sobotka references.
