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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
changes in the primary unit that most people and societies optimized for.
Ray Dalio • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
THE POWER OF INFORMATION
Scott H. Young • Ultralearning
has fragmented most knowledge workers’ attention into slivers.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The information balance of power has changed, of course. A generation ago, the public could exist only as a passive audience. Information was dispensed on the industrial model: top down and one to many. That was the great age of the daily newspaper and famous anchormen on the model of Walter Cronkite. The advent of digital platforms, in a sense, cr
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
answers presented themselves,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
his 2009 article “People Power,” Matthew Continetti explains that “popular outbursts serve as a check on, and corrective to, our elites’ behavior. The people know things the elites forget or don’t want to remember.”