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n+1: The Son Shines Bright

nplusonemag.com — “Let’s start this thing how John Sullivan would, if he were writing it. There would be a brisk lede, too conversational to call punchy. The astute reader would already know he was reading someone who has mastered the conventions of magazine journalism so completely that he can’t quite take them seriously.View full resource at nplusonemag.com

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n+1: Chathexis

nplusonemag.com — “Tucked beneath our covers, laptops propped on our knees—is this not the posture most conducive to meaningful Gchatting? In addition to being comfortable, our beds are private; on Gchat, we must be by ourselves to best be with others. Night affords another degree of solitude: like the lights in the apartment building across the street, Gchat’s bright bulbs go out, one by one, until a single circle glows hopefully. Like Gatsby’s green light, it is the promise of happiness.View full resource at nplusonemag.com

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Most Recently Shared on August 23, 2011 at 9:46 am By:

KentBottles Kent Bottles, MD Doctor, Pathologist, and Physician

http://ow.ly/6adQH For David Hume online chat would not qualify as conversation

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n+1: Sad as Hell

nplusonemag.com — “In-person communication feels binary to me now: subjects are either private, confessional, and soulful or frantically current, determined mostly by critical mass, interesting only in their ephemeral status. Increasingly these modes of talk seem mutually exclusive. You can pull someone aside—away from the party, onto the fire escape—and confess to a foible or you can stay inside with the group and make a joke about something everyone’s read online.View full resource at nplusonemag.com

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n+1: Revolt of the Elites

nplusonemag.com — “Has any concept more completely defined and disfigured public life over the last generation than so-called elitism? Ever since Richard Nixon--™s speechwriters pitted a silent majority (later sometimes --the real America--) against the nattering nabobs of negativism (later --tenured radicals,-- the --cultural elite,-- and so on), American political, aesthetic, and intellectual experience can only be glimpsed through a thickening fog of culture war.View full resource at nplusonemag.com

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Most Recently Shared on January 29, 2011 at 9:40 am By:

Hlth_Literacy Health Literacy Medical School

Why the bearers of #culture rather than the wielders of #power who are labeled #elitists http://ht.ly/3KS4A

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