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the average television viewer could retain only 20 percent of the information contained in a fictional televised news story.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’
Dan Brown • Origin: A Novel (Robert Langdon Book 5)
“We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years.”
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Moments of great cultural ferment always correspond with moments of great cultural encounters.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
The world we live in today is not just the one created by the likes of Tiberius of Rome, or even Emperor Wu of Han. Until surprisingly recent times, spaces of human freedom existed across large parts of our planet. Millions lived in them. We don’t know their names, as they didn’t carve them in stone, but we know that many lived lives in which one... See more
David Wengrow • An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
Digging up early Rome
Mary Beard • SPQR
Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Time had moved on, or maybe it had stopped—that was the era of The End of History and the Last Man, the 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, who declared the triumph of Western liberal democracy.