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An obvious but timely meme, to which I’ll add an old but timely joke:“What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?”“I don’t know and I don’t care.“In Amusing Ourselves To Death, Neil Postman argued that the model for our dystopia was not Orwell’s “1984” but Huxley’s “Brave New World,” because we were not being repressed […]

Reply All (WPWG) not only suggests taking a break from the Weight of It All, but explains how we manage to get by without pondering such things.I laughed at the punchline, but it set me thinking about Neil Postman’s classic “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” which, in turn, leads me to think of the mud-spattered, toothless […]