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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
faster churning of companies in and out of the S&P 500, the death of news and the newspaper, the failure of established
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of circulati
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the web, of course) a study conducted by some very clever researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
By 1956, the sociologist William H. Whyte saw a “decline of the Protestant ethic” and the rise of “the organization man,” for whom conformity was prized over initiative.