Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
The One You Feed
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The Meta-Contextualization of Ideas in Our Present Culture
Our present culture is very much one of short-termism and is very often divorced from historical context. We assume that if something isn't on the internet it doesn't matter or doesn't exist at all. What's on the internet is often misattributed quotes and fragmentary ideas stripped of original context, reclaimed in a different way which doesn't necessarily preserve the integrity of the original idea. Take for instance this parable about the two wolves now the internet is rife with citations of it regurgitating it as this old Cherokee legend but in fact as you know it first appeared in The Holy Spirit by Billy Graham.
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