The working class is immense, varied, and not all that amenable to being led. It’s more atomized, more independent-minded, more conspiracy-minded and cynical than it was a couple of generations ago.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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The working class is immense, varied, and not all that amenable to being led. It’s more atomized, more independent-minded, more conspiracy-minded and cynical than it was a couple of generations ago.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.
~ Richard Rorty
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The post-information age is about acquaintance over time: machines’ understanding individuals with the same degree of subtlety (or more than) we can expect from other human beings, including idiosyncrasies and totally random events, good and bad, in the unfolding narrative of our lives.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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