In his analysis of the show survivors, Greif writes: " they had the republican ideal in their hands, and didn't use it. It got confused with the economic or Darwinian model of competition, in which anti-representative stratagems are justified because one wins in the defeat and eradication of all others to gain a single jackpot" (Par. 25). What does this mean? How does it imply a relationship between our entertainment and our politics? Do you find it persuasive to "read" a television show in this way?