Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything Highlight

Today, whether it’s an athlete, actor, pundit, religious leader, New Age guru, or politician, we buy the celebrity pitchman, not the product being hawked—because that eighties-born cult of the individual has told us that the only way to make decisions is to trust, follow, mimic, and take orders from gods.