Joseph

Some of the regulating mechanisms for collectives that have been most successful in the pre-Internet world can be understood in part as modulating the time domain.

Fiction’s abyss is si-lence, nada. Whereas nonfiction’s abyss is To-tal Noise, the seething static of every particu-lar thing and experience, and one’s total free-dom of infinite choice about what to choose to attend to and represent and connect, and how, and why, etc.

The press would be unlicensed because, in Jefferson's words, '(w)here the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

In sum, to really try to be informed and liter-ate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

a rate of con-sumption which tends to level everything out into an undifferentiated mass of high-quality description and trenchant reflection that be-comes both numbing and euphoric, a kind of Total Noise that’s also the sound of our U.S. culture right now, a culture and volume of info 1

Entropic Apex

Marshall McLuhan was spot on here -"people prefer bad news to good news, because bad news provides them with a "survival emotion" while good news threatens them with change

It is common for students to change cram schools for different subjects. Indeed, there are even cram schools to enter other famous cram schools. On weekends and holidays, kids study from morning till night, with their parents occupied with transporting them to and from the schools.