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Every disaster made us wish for more, for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation.
When TV didn’t fill them with rage, it scared them half to death.
“Terrifying data is now an industry in itself.
Gibberish but high-quality gibberish.
You are sure that you are right but you don’t want everyone to think as you do.