That is not to say that lawmakers are disengaged or that voters are happy with the tuition hikes they've seen over the last decade.
That's bad for anyone, but it can be especially bad for high schoolers: "Colleges are complaining that kids are disengaged, they're dropping out, taking a long time to graduate.
"Our assertion is it's not that young people are disengaged, they just don't like the news that is given to them by the establishment, by the traditional news agencies," Mr Elek adds It is a compliment to Vice that broadcasters from CNN and HBO to BBC4 and Channel 4 have now bought its shows.
"You're getting down to people that are just hard-core disengaged," he said.
What is suggested is "a public that is increasingly disengaged from national politics".
The two conformations of the NBDs, that is the disengaged and closed, are coupled to inward- and outward-facing conformations of the TMD respectively.
We've long been told that young people are disengaged and disillusioned with politics, despite more 18- to 25-year-olds voting in May's general election than in 2005 and 2010.
That means 67.9percentt are disengaged -- or as human resources consultant and author, Alaina Love told me on my radio show Green Connections, "70percentt... feel like life begins on Friday at 5 o'clock and ends on Monday morning".
If you have a pedal harp, you will be sure that all pedals are disengaged before tuning.
Of the 70percentthatat were reported to be disengaged, 18percentt were actively disengaged, and the other 52percentt were not engaged.
