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Steven Machat – From Consumer to CitizenHow We Replace Passive Public Opinion with Active Public WillAired Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Entertainment Mogul, Attorney and Author Steven Machat“It seems like the dysfunctional function of mainstream media is to serve up ‘babblum’ – weapons of mass-distraction to make sure the body politic never gets out of diapers.” — Swami BeyondanandaJust a few days ago it came to me.The 2020s will be the Decade of the Citizen.It will have to be, because the entrenched and dysfunctional political, social and economic systems hopelessly addicted to money and power cannot reform themselves. What is required is an outside intervention by we the people, or else we will devolve into just another “turd world” country.Our guest this week, Steven Machat, has spent a lifetime in the entertainment industry, and has seen first-hand how consent is conceived and manufactured, how the industry feeds toxic memes, and how it disempowers originality and im