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Five Books to Take On a Desert Island, Why The News Makes You Dumb, and Why Politics is the True National Pastime

Life and Books and Everything

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How Does the News Make Us Dumbah?

Colin: How does the news make us dumb? keven: It still seems to me like something that's fundamentally abstract, like a easily approved in theory, harder in practice. What do you think people are not familiar with the concept of pseudo events? colin: I don't if you guys saw this washington post piece recently where they were talking about a black face costume from several years ago and then it surfaced again four years later. You come back six days later, let alone six months later, most of it is what. Why were we talking about that again? This plays into our current cultural upheaval intentions and why real epi s of injustice turn into massive cultural conflag

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