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> [The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/the-modern-world-s-tech-giddy-control-and-facilitation-makes-us/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

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## More by Roger Cohen

> [The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/the-modern-world-s-tech-giddy-control-and-facilitation-makes-us/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/the-riveting-moral-power-of-the-arab-spring-comes-from-its-homegrown/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/interventionism-is-inextricable-from-the-american-idea-if-the-united/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/never-underestimate-the-human-capacity-for-delusion/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/conspiracy-theories-are-the-refuge-of-the-disempowered/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [“As Joseph Roth once wrote, “If there is one nation that is justified in seeing the ‘national question’ as essential to its survival, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/as-joseph-roth-once-wrote-if-there-is-one-nation-that-is-justified-in/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [“In our case, as for countless other Jews, the price of integration was the loss of millennia of Jewish tradition. The Torah’s instruction gave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/in-our-case-as-for-countless-other-jews-the-price-of-integration-was/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/iraq-and-afghanistan-have-exacted-a-toll-on-america-in-lives-treasure/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [“Extreme suffering engenders revulsion. Bert felt what Saul Bellow would call the “sense of personal contamination and aversion” engendered by the “disintegrating bodies” of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/extreme-suffering-engenders-revulsion-bert-felt-what-saul-bellow/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

> [Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-cohen/conspiracy-theory-is-the-ultimate-refuge-of-the-powerless-if-you/)

[Roger Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-cohen/)

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