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We live in a country undergoing a severe case of ancestor worship (a symptom of insecurity and fear of the future), which is exacerbated by an absurdly unworkable and manipulable doctrine called originalism.
American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic
newyorker.com
Good and worthy professional journalists in these circumstances were not those who strove always and only to embody the virtues of truth-telling, or who concerned themselves only with the informational value of their news reports, but rather those who __grasped the multiple interests that were at stake in each news assignment and advanced these interests in an effective and situationally optimal manner.__
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Initially, Japan’s traffic lights were green as green can be. Despite this, the country’s official traffic documents still referred to green traffic lights as ao rather than midori. While international traffic law decrees all “go” signals must be represented by green lights, Japanese linguists objected to their government’s decision to continue using the word ao to describe what was clearly midori. The government decided to compromise. “In 1973, the government mandated through a cabinet order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible—still technically green, but noticeably blue enough to justifiably continue using the ao nomenclature,” Allan Richarz writes for Atlas Obscura.
This Is Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green
rd.com
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