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A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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What Risks Being Lost in an Age Dominated by the Image?

Kissinger: The contemporary world is in the midst of a transformation in human consciousness so pervasive as to be nearly invisible. Reading a complex book carefully has become a countercultural act, Kissinger says. Emotional display is now privileged over self-command, changing the kinds of people and arguments that are taken seriously in public life,. lacking a moral and strategic vision, the present age is unmoored.

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