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Our Own Worst Enemy

The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy

• Tom Nichols 2021 . 320.973 Nichols . CMill lib

• ix 2013 essay 2017 book "The Death Of Expertise" 303.4833 Nichols 2017 Hills-Brook Sherwood Tigard Tualatin

• 027 ch1 A Hunger for Apocalypse: The Perils of Peace and Plenty

• 050 explosion of bandwidth -> better standard of living, also democratic decline

• 051 internet "social media" breeds bad ideas, encourages attacks online, displaces real human contact
• 053 2015 average consumer 15hrs per day on internet
• 055 NYU Neil Postman agrees with Huxley, "amusing ourselves to death"

• p057 ch2 The Nicest People You'll Ever Dislike: When Good Neighbors are Bad Citizens

• p059 idiot from Greek word idion pertaining to self

• p070 Silvio Berlusconi

• p072 poll: half of Americans believed politicians should decide rather than the American people
• p072 studied voters: whether process is democratic is not particularly important
• p073 LA voter watched "Apprentice", Trump would be more exciting than "boring" Clinton

• p074 picture of Clintons at 2005 Trump Wedding

• p075 diverse opinions mistaken for moderate opinions
• p077 OOT voter: Obama Obama Trump

• p080 2019 Rauch hardening of incoherent ideological difference

• p083 Trump downplayed COVID because voters preferred irresponsibility
• p085 Voters revert to village mentality, more comfortable, inspired by celebrity

• p086 John Adams: private virtue -> public virtue -> foundation of republics

• p087 ch3 "Is There No Virtue Among Us?" Democracy in an Age of Rage and Resentment

• p088 civic virtue drowns in narcissism, anger, and resentment

• p090 Christopher Lasch 1979 The Culture of Narcissism

• p091 disco was one of the least bad parts of the 1970s

• p092 Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone

• p094 Mary Trump, Ph.D. Trump Narcisist

• p095 Gallup Poll Americans more stressed and worried and angry

• p101 Arthur Brooks 2019 Our Culture of Contempt

• p102 Nichols realizes he too feels contempt ... for liberals

• p109 Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

• p110 Laid off Trump voter "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting"

• p112 ch4 System Failure? Human Suffering and the Case against Liberal Democracy

• p137 anti-globalization: More jobs or affordable cars?
• p138 unequal distribution of empathy
• p139 1975 no aid to NYC led to 2000s no aid elsewhere
• p140 Liberal democracy hasn't been delivering (replacements for jobs in heavy industry)
• p140 populism "style and swagger", produces unfit leaders

• p141 Eurasia GroupIan Bremmer

• p141 elites accept public anger becaus system works
• p142 Mississippi poorest state, 118% of the median income of France
• p142 no jobs? Move to where they are
• p143 1970s elder care Dickensian warehouses for the old
• p143 world 40 years ago wasn't better, dead ends and very few avenues out
• p145 we believe past better because our memories are short

• p149 Bruce Springsteen 2012 Death to My Hometown robber barons to hell for killing a city that died 30 years before

• p154 "throw the bums out", the bums of both parties staying put

  • n4.43 p154 Fenno's Paradox throw the bums out, but re-elect our own bum

• p156 social media helps us know each other better, and we don't like each other much

• p167 ch5 Hello, I Hate You: How Hyper-Connection Is Destroying Democracy

• p157 Daniel Boorstin No society could survive -- and surely no society could be decent -- if everybody in it were able to communicate everything

  • n5.5 p160 The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists

  • n5.6 p161 Little Man, What Now? MAGA is bored middle class

• p163 Pornhub is #3 after Facebook and Twitter, ahead of Microsoft Apple and Amazon

  • n5.13 p164 Yevgeny Simpkin 2020 Social Media Is The Problem

• p166 Author met first wife dating in the 1970s, second wife onliny

• p169 Internet connectivity like "DANGER WILL ROBINSON" robot from 1960's Lost In Space

  • n5.16 p170 Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic

  • n5.18 p173 A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

  • n5.19 p173 Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

• p174 mental health risks increase with the number of platforms used, seven or more triples risks of anxiety and depression
• p176 much social media devisiveness older people with too much spare time

• p178 Venkatesh Rao The Internet of Beefs

• p179 Robert Putnam: TV viewing strongly and negatively related to social trust and group membership, an effect that is reversed when compared to people who read newspapers
• p183 frequent Facebook users envious and depressed

• p184 ressentiment

• p188 Political identities were from local experience, now shared loathing over long distances

• p191 Conclusion: Is There a Road Back?"

• p192 public wants what it wants; not a democracy, but a troop of ill-tempered toddlers

  • nC.1 p193 some forgo their own healthcare if that denies non-whites Metzl Dying of Whiteness 2019

  • nC.2 p194 Support at GOP Debate for Letting the Uninsured Die

• p195 Cato's Brink Lindsey "emphasizing doing good over feeling good" and "making peace with the world before trying to change it"

• p200 2016 Republican primaries "a 17-candidate circus" that led to unstable reality-TV star
• p202 Author former Republican, aid to Senator John Heinz, left party after Trump
• p203 former citizen soldiers, now professionals elevating martial over democratic values
• p206 after mob attack on Capitol, some Trump Republican Senators tried to overrule the Electoral College
• p207 Vermont (647K) and Wyoming (588K) each have two senators, DC (700K) has none
  • but who do those 100 senators live among and mostly listen to?
• p210 Postman: "Who is prepared to take up arms against a sea of giggles?"

• p211 Three Days of the Condor

• p215 a technologically advanced version of 1970s dystopia
• p215 The elites will rule by default, not deception

• p217 Pericles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles's_Funeral_Oration#The_greatness_of_Athens "... We throw open our city to the world ..."

• p218 Lincoln: Lyceum Address "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

• p219 Athens betrayed by prominent leader