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Public speech is easily reduced to an exercise in caricature, confected and boring, with the volume set too high. Amid this vast ado about nothing, it is little wonder that a decline in the standard of rhetoric is declared. But it is an illusion, and if public speech is boring the proper response is to be thankful.
When They Go Low, We Go High
Philip Collins
A familiarity, the sun in the sky or if I’m lucky, a road sign will point me in the right direction. Reminding me that I was never lost. Just out finding myself.
If We Knew Why, We Wouldn’t Be Doing It [386]
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“Rewilding”.
The metaphor suggests precisely what to do: If you want to have wilder, curiouser thoughts, you have to avoid the industrial monocropping of big-tech feeds. You want an intellectual *forest,* overgrown with mushrooms and towering weeds and a massive dead log where a family of raccoons has taken up residence.
Rewilding Your Attention
Clive Thompson
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