With a hat-tip to our e-pal Bill K., here’s Richard Fernandez on our psychotic media environment:
With misinformation as with miseducation the public sees, but not in due proportion. Its calculations are put all out of reckoning. The image of world is presented like a reflection in a fun house mirror, with certain aspects greatly enlarged while others are minimized almost to invisibility.
Perhaps never in human history has the average man been bombarded with so many stories. Yet paradoxically never has the public been in greater danger of strategic surprise. If it is caught at unawares the reason for its blindness won’t be lack of bandwidth but in all the things it imagined were important that weren’t.
Read the rest here.
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Malcolm I noted below your asking a question of Mr. Wyman.
As my memory usually serves tolerably well where your posts are concerned, I’ve not yet occasioned a resort to Google but, you might be interested in taking a look at my comment of March 25, 2018 at 1:43 PM over on Dip’s site.
& Whitewall? You’ve a reply at that referenced. This site.
“As to newspapers, defend yourself against them with the energy that the continuity and the indiscretion of their assault make indispensable. You must know what the papers contain, but they contain so little, and it would be easy to learn it all without settling down to interminable lazy sittings!”
A.G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life