Excerpts from The News, Alain de Botton:
- "Rather than an impression of political possibility, an encounter with the news may usher in an impression of our nothingness in an unimprovable and fundamentally chaotic universe."
- "Before we despair at the calamities that apparently surround us on all sides, we should remember that the news is ultimately only one set of stories about what is happening out there, no more and no less."
- "It invites us to the conference table and into the parliament, it introduces us to the key players, then it shows us nothing but inexplicable delays, strange compromises and maddening evasions. It can feel as though we are daily being invited to watch helplessly while a close friend drowns behind a plate-glass window."
- "The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which house keys never go astray."
- "Here was a homogenizing force in danger of stamping out all the productive oddities of interior life and of turning the rich, idiosyncratic handcrafted kitchen gardens of the mind into rolling, mechanized, insipid wheatfields."
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