A Cry from the Far Middle Quotes

“The quality of what’s communicated seems to decline steadily with every advance in the ease of communicating”
― P.J. O'Rourke, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

“Among the properties that belong to you are a pair of lungs. The Internet tells me (for free again) that those lungs emit 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide a day. Multiply by world population and that’s 17.25 trillion pounds of carbon dioxide, which is much more than the 209 billion pounds of carbon dioxide that burning fossil fuels emits daily.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

“Take it from me, a print journalist. “Content Is Free”—that’s the founding concept of the Internet. I spent forty years as a print journalist. Now I’m a “content provider.” And . . . Content Is Free.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

“Although not in real life. In 2006 Gibson got in trouble for an anti-Semitic outburst at a Los Angles County sheriff’s deputy who’d pulled Mel over for suspected DUI. After we got to hear what Mel was thinking, he had to enter a substance abuse recovery program. Which should remind us that we’ve always had a way to hear what everybody thinks. It’s called booze. Sure puts my mouth in gear. Meanwhile, what social media should be drinking is a big cup of shut up.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land