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Fox’s influence is larger because of the sheer size of its audience, but all of the networks now feature partisan “infotainment” in their schedules. The bigger problem, on all of the major networks, is that the transition from news to entertainment is almost seamless and largely invisible: daytime fluff moves to afternoon updates and talk, which then gives way to the evening’s hard news, which in turn then flows into celebrity programming, all within the space of hours.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
Dans la nuit du 4 août 1789, l’Assemblée nationale française vota l’abolition des « privilèges » du clergé et de la noblesse. Toute la difficulté, dans les semaines, mois et années qui suivirent, fut de définir la liste exacte de ces « privilèges », et par là même d’établir la frontière entre les droits qui devaient être purement et simplement abolis, sans aucune compensation, et ceux qui étaient au contraire considérés comme légitimes et pouvaient être perpétués, ou bien faire l’objet d’une compensation ou d’un rachat, quitte à les reformuler dans la langue politico-juridique nouvelle.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
Emotions are survival mechanisms, but they don’t always work for the individual. They work across a large number of trials to keep the species alive. The individual may live or die, but over a few million years, more mammals lived than died by letting emotion take over, and so emotion was selected. For people who are raised in modern civilization, the wilderness is novel and full of unfamiliar hazards. To survive in it, the body must learn and adapt.
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
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