Way back when, some fellow named Gutenberg invented the printing press. Nowadays 
you say the name Gutenberg and everyone thinks you're talking about Police Academy. 
Curmudgeonly angst aside, we really do seem to have gotten dumber. But is it really our 
fault? Could it be that our filter for the world, the ever-simplified "Media," has begun to 
ask less of us intellectually and aesthetically? The evidence points in that direction. Thirty
years ago, you'd have to flip 105 pages before you found nudity in a Playboy, and even 
then it was artfully done. But deep down, perhaps we're to blame here. We have lowered
the standards by buying the tripiest tripe available. So this issue of Libertas looks at the 
long-gone past of respectable media to see what it was, what it could be, and why it isn't. 
You only have yourselves to blame. Unless you blame Stone Phillips, which is totally cool 
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