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The Media Are Delivering “The Good News,” But Even They Cannot Completely Ignore Reality

Indeed, it would be quite impossible for newspapers to exist and be profitable if they performed as their critics believe, that is, depressing us with a constant bewailing of our state.  After a short time, no one would be able to bear them.  Instead, every morning our papers deliver to us a subtle encouragement to […]

Indeed, it would be quite impossible for newspapers to exist and be profitable if they performed as their critics believe, that is, depressing us with a constant bewailing of our state.  After a short time, no one would be able to bear them.  Instead, every morning our papers deliver to us a subtle encouragement to persist, as our morning prayers once did….Not too much, of course; for if the promise was too great, its emptiness would soon become readily apparent.  Rather, we are comforted every day by a report of the world’s Daily Progress.  The progress must be almost immeasurably small, to be sure,since, like a constant flurry of snow, it is recorded every day but never seems to accumulate. ~Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit

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