The Frame
More stately mansions.
Oct
30
Oct
15
The Most Glorious Thing I’ve Ever Seen on the Internet: Carl Sagan - ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) (via melodysheep)
Sep
26
(via: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan)
Interesting video - Beck can’t define his own phrase (either because it will sound racist because it probably is racist, or because he really doesn’t know what it means) but relies on the listener to fill in the definition. Now that I think about it, this rhetorical tool seems standard in ‘outrage’ discourse. It’s a way to rile people up without saying anything.
Jul
18
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.Aldous Huxley
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