24. Why Everything Feels Increasingly Unreal — Beth and Rob L'Arrivée
Why does everything feel increasingly unreal?
The people most trapped in abstraction are often the people consuming the most information.
Tocqueville saw this danger almost 200 years ago.
In this episode of Tocqueville Talks, Beth L'Arrivée and Rob L'Arrivée explore one of Alexis de Tocqueville's most penetrating insights: democratic societies encourage citizens to think in general ideas, abstractions, and public opinion rather than in the concrete realities immediately around them.
The result is a strange paradox. We know more. We discuss more. We consume more information. Yet we often…
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