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.p157 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Boorstin | Daniel Boorstin ]] ''No society could survive -- and surely no society could be decent -- if everybody in it were able to communicate everything'' |
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
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
- 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 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