Posts tagged "reading"
they made a statue of me!
One result of this nicheification of the world is that consensus and common ground grow ever smaller, civic discourse gets a lot less civil, and pluralism — what Isaiah Berlin called the idea that “there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathizing and deriving light” from “worlds, outlooks, very remote from our own” — comes to feel increasingly elusive.
Michiko Kakutani, “Texts Without Contexts”
A thoughtful and non-polemical analysis of reading in the digital age.
