Nunberg – The Years of Talking Dangerously

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From: Quotes batch 16

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Concept

“The word ‘war’ has been stretched to cover everything from drugs to poverty, losing its original concept in the process.” (p. 14)

Behavior

“The behavior of modern pundits is a performance of outrage designed to trigger the emotional centers of the audience.” (p. 77)

Game Theory

“In the attention economy, the most extreme voice wins the game of visibility, regardless of the truth of the claim.” (p. 128)

Cognition

“Partisan language creates a cognitive filter that makes it nearly impossible to process information that contradicts our bias.” (p. 194)

Memory

“We are living in an era of ‘historical amnesia,’ where the linguistic shifts of the last decade are already being forgotten.” (p. 252)