"The growing choices in media allowed people to retreat from anything that didn’t reinforce their own prejudices – creating an increasingly xenophobic population consumed with passion and unencumbered by facts." (from "Robert Ludlum's The Utopia Experiment (Covert-One Book 10)" by Robert Ludlum, Kyle Mills)
"Wars were being fought over resources that weren’t yet scarce, and democracy was deteriorating into nothing more than the tyranny of an ill-informed and superstitious majority."