“As Thoreau implied, telegraphy made relevance irrelevant.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“We might say that a technology is to a medium as the brain is to the mind.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Effective management of anxiety sets you up to effectively manage money, mission, and morale.”
― Bounce: The Art of Turning Tough Times into Triumph
― Bounce: The Art of Turning Tough Times into Triumph
“Indeed, I 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.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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