data, data, everywhere, and not a thought to think. this is going into nonfiction book club's coursepack for sure, with its examination of nonfiction, particularly the rise of literary nonfiction:
But information alone, like technology alone, won’t lead us into a promised postpolitical land of enlightened technocracy. Ideological battles must still be won or lost: “The Tigers of Wrath are wiser than the Horses of Instruction.” (It’s another fact that at current rates of attrition the last wild tiger will die in 2023.)
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