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You cannot do political philosophy on television. Its form works against the content.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Walter Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Men merely finding themselves free found themselves free to dispute the value of freedom.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Yet the real trouble is found to lie deeper than this. It is the appalling problem, when one comes to actual cases, of getting men to distinguish between better and worse. Are people today provided with a sufficiently rational scale of values to attach these predicates with intelligence? There is ground for declaring that modern man has become a mo
... See moreRichard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
It is chiefly interesting as evidence that the boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
“There is only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is fascism. For fascism is a lie told by bullies. A writer who will not lie cannot live and work under fascism.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Born in North Carolina,
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
Hayden White expresses what I believe is a sympathetic critique of Ricoeur’s ideas.