Are We Still Thinking? - by Simon Sarris
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The world’s slow move from dialogue to media, and how it changed us
So we’ll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news, and we’ll talk with them too — Who loses and who wins, who’s in, who’s out — And take upon’s the mystery of things — Shakespeare, King Lear When someone asks, “Where do you get the news?” how do you answer? What are sources for the news, for new knowledge? Before modern times, the primary source was person-to-person conversation. Knowledge transferred everywhere people converged: in marketplaces and agoras, churches and bars, courts and association…
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