Six 1962 Daniel Boorstin Quotes That Foresaw Events In 2016

07/12/2016
Six 1962 Daniel Boorstin Quotes That Foresaw Events In 2016

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In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, media pundits have pinpointed a number of seeming prophets — philosopher Richard Rorty, Supreme Court justice David Souter, the TV show Black Mirror — that anticipated the conditions of the election before they happened. To me, the most salient prognostication of 2016 comes from historian Daniel J. Boorstin’s 1962 book The…

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