In Robert Mosley's Workin' on the Chain Gang, Mosley exposes the reality of government, media, the working class and segregation. Although slavery seemed to be a big part of the picture during the 1960's, Mosley reveals the true crime happening behind it. Democracy's purpose has shifted from rules and regulation to money and monopoly. Science is growing stronger, more efficient, and expensive. It grows more convenient and also dangerous. Money shifts power in arguable places and flaws grow bigger under the wing of censorship in the media. These are the obstacles in the pursuit of happiness and even till this day, these conflicts continue to burden us.

     Although Mosley makes many valuable points throughout Workin on the Chain Gang, one perspective that caught my attention in his work was how he focused on the social connection to media. Here is an example of Mosley's take on society's connection with media.

     "Television is our opium, our nightly bowl of hazy, unfocused dreaming. And money is the super-drug, the one fix that you can't leave cold turkey because the withdrawal would be fatal (Mosley 6)."

     I find those lines to be crucial to Mosley's writing because he makes a comparison of society's mundane rituals to drugs. I also find these comparison great because every drug has it's withdrawals. Some easy and others challenging but the one "drug" that is life risking to break away from is money. Television may be a tough challenge for most and others near impossible, but unlike money, there is a rate of success according to Mosley. Sure we don't inject, inhale, nor drink television, but there is a physical and mental prices to pay when withdrawn from it. In such a short and simple phrase, Mosley shows how mentally drawn society is to media.

     In conclusion, Workin on the chain gang has an aggressive and powerful perspective on society's vulnerability. Even with government creating inequalities and being robbed blind of true democracy by corporationalism and monopoly, their flaws and many other conflicts are shielded from the media with censorship.