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we have less to fear from government restraints than from television glut; that, in fact, we have no way of protecting ourselves from information disseminated by corporate America; and that, therefore, the battles for liberty must be fought on different terrains from where they once were.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
History is a tale we tell, not a perfect account of reality, I continued. You just have to figure out whether you trust the storyteller.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
... See moreIn 1896, Brooks Adams wrote a book called The Law of Civilization and Decay. Like most late-19th-century commentators, he believed that his country was nearing a watershed in its history. But unless America rallied around a strong leader, the center of world power, which he thought might be about to shift from England to the United States, would sh
Is Homo sapiens capable of making sense of the world it has created? Is there still a clear border separating reality from fiction?
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Power, Lord Acton said, corrupts. Not always. What power always does is reveal.
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
This is the moral hazard Socrates warned against—that by alienating our knowledge, making it “external to us,” we have bought an immense measure of power over the world at the expense of having power over ourselves.
Abby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
