A Brief Political Interlude Before An Inauguration
What ‘Democracy’ Is Under Attack?
two thoughts from Caitlin Johnstone
"The previous president intervened in the primary to appoint his right-hand man as his chosen successor. That successor will be installed in a five-day, star-studded celebration surrounded by a sea of barbed wire and heavily armed soldiers. What “democracy” is under attack, exactly?"
"When you realize that corporations are America’s real government, the whole “it isn’t censorship if it’s a private company doing it” argument is seen for the joke that it is. It’s also completely specious, because the government is directly involved in the censorship."
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"I sometimes think that what has happened to knowledge in our time is that knowledge and information seem to become synonymous, when of course, they're not synonymous.
You can't get to wisdom from information. You can get to wisdom only from knowledge. So confusing information for knowledge has pretty intense and real social consequences."
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"It doesn't matter whether that expression is truthful or not truthful, whether it's motivated by social justice or whether it's motivated by something else. Underlying all of this is a system that has found a way to make money off of our attention."
Ayad Akhtar is a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Some of my related thoughts from March 2020.
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"The Submission Will Be Televised"
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