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Over radio, fear had fed on fear; everyone had wanted a happy ending, and when eventually it did end, the best possible construction was put upon the agreement. Chamberlain was the hero of the hour, as much in America as in Britain. It took a while for people to realize that he was a weak old man who had sold out a resolute and embattled ally for a worthless Hitler promise. Churchill knew it, and said, “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war.” Roosevelt knew it; to his ambassador in Portugal he wrote, “The dictator threat from Europe is a good deal closer to the United States.” Murrow and Shirer knew it. Meeting in Paris, they agreed that war was likely after next year’s harvest. And H. V. Kaltenborn knew it; even before Chamberlain’s visit to Berchtesgaden he said, “My own feeling is that it will be little more than a truce. There is grave doubt as to whether or not the visit will bring peace.”
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
But if your needs are existential—if you’re trying to recover from a frightening, debilitating illness, for example—cyber connections are no replacement for the face-to-face. One reason may be that live interaction sparks far greater activity in the brain regions linked to social cognition and reward (the anterior cingulate cortex, ventral striatum, and amygdala), according to the first fMRI study to compare the brain’s responses to face-to-face interactions with canned, prerecorded ones. Rebecca Saxe, the MIT neuroscientist who led this study, explained that it shows why it feels good to be together with someone in the same room, paying attention to exactly the same thing at the same time.45
The Village Effect
Susan Pinker
The hate-mail page became the most heavily trafficked spot on our website. People started writing to thank me for being brave enough to display the nastiness. But it didn’t feel brave; it felt like the only option, the only way I could deal with the pain. I still practice this same style of Internet jiujitsu to this day: I grab the hate and air it out, try to laugh at it, and share it back out into the world, so it doesn’t eat me alive. Around the same time that we built the hate-mail page, I started blogging regularly, sharing the good press, the bad press, and my emotional struggles riding the I AM LOVED! I AM HATED! yo-yo of praise and criticism as I tried to simultaneously balance touring, recording, managing the band,
The Art of Asking
Amanda Palmer and Brené Brown
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