Posts for Tag: juxtaposition

Discourse (or not)

“One of the greatest threats we face is, simply put, bullshit. We are drowning it. We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media’s imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak. It infects every facet of public life, corrupting our discourse, wrecking our trust in major institutions, lowering our standards for the truth, making it harder to achieve anything.”

Jon Lovett’s commencement address to Pitzer College. (via theatlantic)

Strange that I read this the same afternoon I saw

Random Discovery at Twitter

Part of the fun for me at Twitter is discovering the coincidental juxtaposition and reinforcement of themes and ideas. This morning I saw @susancain's retweet of this message

right after I saw this

You know what to do.