Some pink, a little red and a lot of Public Opinion.
William Lippmann had me agreeing with him until he said, “I argue that representative government, either in what is ordinarily called politics, or in industry, cannot be worked successfully, no matter what the basis of election, unless there is an independent, expert organization for making the unseen facts intelligible to those who have to make the decisions.”
Who chooses these experts? Who?
bailedWay too densely packed with info that I just don't care enough to wade through.
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Saturday morning
pickVery interesting and informative; as well as entertaining with sprinkles of humor throughout.
The only thing that bothered me was the over-simplified explanation of cognitive dissonance and self-justification being the sole reasons behind people in power not copping to their mistakes.
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"'Mistakes were quite possibly made by the administrations in which I served.'"
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pickThis was my November #Doublespin (very fitting for non-fiction November!) and boy did I have to work to get it done! This is not light reading! The set up is long and slow. The payoff finally comes in the last chapter. Generally, I think he has some good points and it did help my understanding of differences in liberal vs conservative thinking.
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so-soAs promised, gives insight into the mental processes that make it so hard to admit having made a mistake, and that often persuade people to double-down when a mistake has been made, to justify rather than confess culpability. 1/?
Why I consider "deregulation" one of the scariest words in the English language.
