And as a consequence, across the Western world, the over-simplistic policies of the parties of protest and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life out of active, informed debate and engagement, and I stress active.
Posljedica je, da širom Zapadnog svijeta imamo pojednostavljene politike  stranaka koje prosvjeduju i privlače posvemašnje zavaranu, stariju dobnu skupinu, te imamo apatiju i zaokupljenost trivijalnostima karakterističnu za barem dio mladih; uzete zajedno, ti i slični suvremeni poremećaji prijete uništiti aktivnu, informiranu debatu i angažiranost, pri čemu naglašavam - aktivnu.