Paul Miller

“Each story on televised news is “breaking” until it is displaced by the next one.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean. The effort to define the shape and significance of events requires words and concepts that elude us when we are entranced by visual stimuli. Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century