It’s the ANC — not the state, that’s breaking — and with a noisy bang
They say we live in a post-factual age, deciding things irrationally, purely on feel, and that most of that is decided online. We don’t study, read or think anymore, or even watch TV. Teenagers text endlessly — through the night, according to a recent report — and send each other selfies that can get them into trouble. Adults actually find themselves in trouble for what they tweet or retweet, like the luckless Penny Sparrow. You will have your own view on how far all that is true and links up. On one reading of history, things stay pretty much the same the more they change, though in the middle of our global world’s unremitting electronic and social media din, you can be forgiven for thinking things have never been worse. But could it all be just a case of temperament, of whether we as individuals are optimists or pessimists, see the glass as half full or half empty? In a Business Day article (Big questions … and a big day is upon us, October 14) editor-in-chief Peter Bruce writes: ...
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