May 22, 2012 - Quote for Today
"So I don't spend much time
with the radio, television,
and the daily paper.
A car without a radio
is a place for contemplation.
When friends object
that I don't know
what is going on
and am not concerned
with the life our our society,
I answer that they are deluded.
History does not happen by the day.
Once I read every copy
of a leading newspaper
from January to September 1870,
with the intention of discovering
the nature of the historical forces
of that period. What I did discover
was a host of superficialities,
fleeting illusions,
and enormous blind spots
as to what was really going on ...."
George Peck, 1973
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