To me it seems crazy that we could consider ourselves a country before radio. I mean, we had no unifying THING. No one thing that brought the whole country together other than war or something. That is so crazy to think about. Now I could be listening to the same radio station as some kid in Kentucky, or a grandma in Nevada or something else weird and I would never know but it’s so cool to think that it could be happening.

I for one don’t think that nationalism has ended. As long as there are things that everyone dislikes, we’re okay as a country. And as long as we have a government, that’s taken care of. I don’t think any kind of marketing could totally end nationalism. I mean, right now we all have person-specific marketing shoved at us every time we go on Amazon.com, or ebay or wherever. It’s something we all have that makes us feel special. I think it might even bring us together a little bit to think that we have our own set of preferences, outside of our niche. The idea that we don’t have to conform completely is comforting, to me at least.