Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)
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Re: Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)
#2A person running for president of this country comes from show business and there are venture capitalists like Mark Andreeson who seriously talk about him as somebody who knows policy all because they can get a seat at the table.
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#3A person running for president of this country comes from show business and there are venture capitalists like Mark Andreeson who seriously talk about him as somebody who knows policy all because they can get a seat at the table.
A person ELECTED for president of the USA came from show business - Reagan.
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#4Legendary comment from the old boy Terry Davis as the top post there.
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#5A person running for president of this country comes from show business and there are venture capitalists like Mark Andreeson who seriously talk about him as somebody who knows policy all because they can get a seat at the table.
A person ELECTED for president of the USA came from show business - Reagan.
If I remember correctly, Trump was also elected once, as stupid as that is.
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#6A person running for president of this country comes from show business and there are venture capitalists like Mark Andreeson who seriously talk about him as somebody who knows policy all because they can get a seat at the table.
And that should disqualify a presidential candidate… why exactly?
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#7Live Neil Postman. Discovered him around 2016 and read many of his books. And planning to regularly reread him.
So many things changed since he died but his ideas hold up pretty good.
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#8A person running for president of this country comes from show business and there are venture capitalists like Mark Andreeson who seriously talk about him as somebody who knows policy all because they can get a seat at the table.
A person ELECTED for president of the USA came from show business - Reagan.
A demented figurehead with other people behind him directing the show. It's as if acting was the perfect training for the worst idea for a position in a system of checks and balances.
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#9Hey guys, what if good things were actually bad? Wow!! Instead of enjoying ourselves we should instead spend eight hours a day intently studying woodworking & tax policy. The fact that people enjoy talking to each other and looking at cat pictures on social media proves that people will accept fascism and that Western liberal democracy is fated for impotence.
Re: Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)
#10Legendary comment from the old boy Terry Davis as the top post there.
The only true seer of the modern age.