I’d love to be wrong about this. But I’m not. If you want to understand the world, not just collect endless factlets, you still need to read books. If you do, the internet makes you smarter. If you don’t, it makes you dumber. ~ Kevin Drum
If televisions somehow all vanished, I bet we’d all be twice as smart within a year. ~ Matt Yglesias
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
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I bet he’s wrong. And I also bet I’d get obscenely rich manufacturing and selling televisions!Report