“Humans run on emotion, assumption and impulse. We cant function on logic alone. But emotion assumption and impulse also allow us to weave cozy cocoons of unexamined prejudice and received wisdom. They shield us from the pain of unwelcome information.” — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Many focus on what they perceive as a loss of some vital aspect of our humanity. To me, the sessence of being human is not in our limitations. It is our ability to reach beyond our limitations. We did not… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Humans run on emotion, assumption and impulse. We cant function on logic alone. But emotion assumption and impulse also allow us to weave cozy… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Speech itself, inevitable and unrelenting is the wind. It can dance like a zephyr. It can roar or shriek or wail. But it cant be stopped. Everything we hate about the media today was present at its creation; its corrupt or craven practitioners, its easy manipulation by the powerful, its capacity for propagating lies, its penchant for amplifying rage. Also… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share
“What we're really dealing with is a mirror: an exalting degrading tedious and transcendent funhouse mirror of America. Media is a plural noun; We're… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Citizens may recoil from paying for the news, he noted, because they see it as a natural right. But in the absence of consumer… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“What do you think of yourself? What do you think of the world? They are riddles of the Sphinx and in some way or the other we must deal with them. If we decide to leave them unanswered that is a choice; if we waver in our answer, that, too is a choice: but whatever choice we make, we make… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share
“Objectivity works to repel the attacks of critics, like a kind of ethical pepper spray.” — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Many focus on what they perceive as a loss of some vital aspect of our humanity. To me, the sessence of being human is… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: “Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Even if each of our realities is unique, our common cultures and environments ensure that we share some fundamental principles. That is what enables… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it. Finally suppose he is… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“he contrasts two pivotal works of dystopian fiction: George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In Orwell’s vision, he notes, we are… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Worrying about offending people drags us back to the lowest common denominator Our enemies are not the digital bits that dance across our screens… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
