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Mozibur Ullah
Mozibur Ullah
16:59
What I liked about Badiou is generally his political convictions, and he's generally quite eloquent about them. It makes a change from reading the papers which so often feels like being submerged under a sea of opinion.
In fact, I feel like giving up on the media - old and new.
 
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Joseph Weissman
Joseph Weissman
20:37
So jaded, @MoziburUllah :)
Mozibur Ullah
Mozibur Ullah
21:07
@JosephWeissman: world weariness comes with age. It's one of its vices and one of its joys. No longer do I feel I have to follow the latest fleeting fashion of opinion...I leave that to the young 'uns :-).
Joseph Weissman
Joseph Weissman
of course :)
the media is the message
i read the news compulsively, i should probably let some of it go
there's not as much policy content, and so much of the analysis is predicated on the idea that everyone is a pundit
the media encourages this really distanced perspective, where first-order claims can't really be evaluated
it's all polling and atmospherics, "who is this good for" kind of analysis -- which is fine but you need to focus more on actual policy and whitepapers etc
there has to be some baseline agreement as to what's actually going on

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