You Never Get Wise, You Only Get Older
Congratulations to Ms. Heather Norman for correctly naming "Gravity" by Embrace as the Sunday Song of the Day.
It seems that more and more, the amount of information in our world is simply staggering. This tidal wave of data, writing, and commentary has caused the citizens of the world, and particularly the information-mad United States, to each become specialists in a given area. We don't really know a lot about anything outside of our specific area of interest, but if you hit the topic that really piques our interest, we are capable of holding forth with our opinions for hours.
My question is: How does someone cut across these lines of specialized interest to provide commentary on the subjects that should matter to all of us? Perhaps I am expecting too much, but this is the significant question that I have in mind as I begin George Packer's last book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq.
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My experience with my harvesting of information at university is-- the more I know, the more I realize I don't know.
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