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Originally Posted by NewChief
That's a good question. While this isn't really an answer, I think the overriding feeling I get for it is of nostalgia. And while in many ways that America wasn't really the "good old America" there's still an underlying pining for a lost era that can no longer be. Don, throughout, is the relic from the past who refuses to change even as the world passes him by. The swallowing of their firm by the behemoth is the final act in this passing of an era.
Of course, that's a false nostalgia, as scrappy upstarts are more possible now than ever... but it just feels like Weiner is reaching for that.
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Yeah, but also now more than ever scrappy upstarts are slaving feverishly to get their head above the rest of the swamp in order to be eaten by a 21st century McCann [Apple buys another social media app, . . . we're all living for the IPO].