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Mostly informative and well-written, but Lesson 9 is poor. The core message, that we must enliven our thinking with a "mental armory" of concepts and language drawn from outside our bubbles, is excellent. But the delivery? "Read more". I get where Snyder is coming from, but for many people. re-reading HP or the Bible won't challenge them or expose them to new thinking - watching some Third Cinema might, though.
— Mar 30, 2018 03:47PM
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aaaand Lesson 11 probably could have been conveyed in a way other than telling us that reading news on the internet is inferior, because aside from the inherent untrustworthiness of all screen media, it causes us, all, universally, to treat bad things as spectacle instead of doing something about it. In the few cases where screen media are truthier than, IDK, The Sun and The Daily Mail? [CITATION NEEDED]
— Mar 30, 2018 07:30PM
