Stimulation society.

More from that great piece by Silver:

Stimulation, however, is somewhat the opposite of persuasion. You're not going to persuade someone of something when you're (literally, in Ziegler's case) yelling in their ear.

The McCain campaign was all about stimulation. The Britney Spears ads weren't persuasive, but they sure were stimulating! "Drill, baby, drill" wasn't persuasive, but it sure was stimulating! Sarah Palin wasn't persuasive, but she sure was (literally, in Rich Lowry's case) stimulating!

Not to sound like an old coot but the younger generations are so much more stimulation-oriented than in the past. Technology is so quick that absolutely no time passes between thinking something and saying it. Imagine how differently the Cuban Missile Crisis would have turned out had JFK been part of the stimulation society and had been able to instantaneous react to what the Soviet Union was doing.