Mark McNease On Topic: Detachment As a Survival Skill
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Living in a house in the woods, miles from anything resembling a town, has its advantages. As much as I would like to be able to walk to a coffee shop or a restaurant for breakfast, I’m reminded every day how apart I want to remain from a world gone mad. Maybe it was always insane and we just didn’t see it, limited to three networks and the quaint idea of the Fairness Doctrine, tossed on the trash heap by Reagan and the likes of Roger Ailes to make way for the smoldering, self-validating information bubbles most people live in now.
Then came the internet, and things really exploded beyond the ability of reason and objectivity to ever contain it again. Sometimes I think evolution realized it had a pile of toxic sludge on its hands and decided to dump it all into an unwanted byproduct called homo sapiens.
Now that I’ve gotten that bit of cheer out of the way … a couple things for my Monday Musings readers and listeners. Here we have my recent interview with historian and author A.J. Schenkman. A.J. is such an uplifting, fun guy. He loves his 7th grade students, he loves history, and he makes it all sound so fascinating. Listen in!