Ross Lazerowitz

“When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years.”4”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“But once again, there is some disappointing news, as the income of the median or typical American household is down since 2000, and unless wage gains are very strong in the next few years, this country essentially will have gone twenty years with wage stagnation or near wage stagnation for median earners.”
― Tyler Cowen, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

“How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not a necessity when all political discourse takes the form of a jest.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business