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PE Greatest Hits: Thompson and Klosterman Debate Why Society Got So Negative
Plain English with Derek Thompson
I'm Imagining a Basketball Game on TV
In the 90s, I was just obsessed with the idea of postmodernism. It seemed like kind of an interesting new way to look at the world. What has become is a completely postmodern world where our experience of reality is mostly mediated. So when you say that you talk to someone about the president, they're not thinking about the president as a person or even a politician who impacts their life. That also changes the way people feel about what they can say about someone.
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