All people are eventually assimilated into “the public.”

"The media demand that you have more and more opinions about more and more topics. They seek to divide your attention until it’s so thin that you can spend only minutes on each topic, essentially making your connection to the issues superficial. Of course, another reason the media are so dangerous is that they give the crowd an ever greater appearance of strength, scope, and objectivity. Eventually, the temptations of the media are too great for many to resist. Eventually, as the Borg says in Star Trek: The Next Generation, resistance is futile. The omnipresent temptations of the media eventually assure that all people are eventually assimilated into “the public.”"