今天，我们必须将内华达州拉斯维加斯市视为我们民族特色和愿望的隐喻，其象征是一台老虎机和合唱女孩的三十英尺高的纸板图片。因为拉斯维加斯是一个完全致力于娱乐观念的城市，因此宣称，所有公共话语都越来越多地采用娱乐形式的文化精神。我们的政治，宗教，新闻，田径，教育和商业已被转变为表演业务的伴随辅助手段，在很大程度上没有抗议甚至广受欢迎。结果是我们是一个临近逗留死亡的人。
(Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot-high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.)