we were more nacve than and thought i will tell them more and everything will be better and didn't have the idea that i was holding all the giant marketing survey at times. i was as nacve as everyone else but to get back to the message a little bit, we have had a big consolidation and as i said, they go through life cycles. the real danger i think is that if companies are powerful enough, that they can set off our competitors and therefore stagnate the economy. so that sounds absurd for google or facebook but at&t was this incredibly dynamic young company in the 20s and by the 50s it had shut down all its competitors, shut down innovation so this is master switch territory, not attention merchants but if you let a giant company have too much control over a part of the economy, it tends to be bad for the countryoverall . i'm a very strong believer in that. >> host: that's the thing with the unifying idea is that if you let big companies have too much control, too much influence through the people being aware of exactly what they are doing, why it could be bad for society, that that to me

most academics view that as nacve and complicit. i just gave a speech in georgetown where one of the questions was you do accept that words haveno objective meaning . and there was a time when a statement like that would have left me entirely confused but then i remembered i was at georgetown. so the fact is that the original deal struck with the american people, those words did have meaning. and while my colleagues do it as a precious authority it was a regionalized that the american people were given and scalia thought that way and it added a depth to his opinions. for me, the really most indicative and profound opinion the road was inference and that of course was an early methodological demonstration of what became quite familiar as scalia's analysis. he said in that, famously said in that opinion, because there are no constitutional text became to this question, the answer to the challenge must be sought in historical understanding and practice. when you look back at that statement and you see what came after it, you realize ho