Since the holiday travel season is nearly upon us (again), I thought the cover of the current issue of The New Republic well worth posting. There was a lot of discussion about the TSA and its invasion of our privacy around Thanksgiving and I predict a lot more around Christmas. But this raises an interesting question: Do we only care about these things for the few moments in which they directly apply to us personally?

Since the holiday travel season is nearly upon us (again), I thought the cover of the current issue of The New Republic well worth posting.

There was a lot of discussion about the TSA and its invasion of our privacy around Thanksgiving and I predict a lot more around Christmas. But this raises an interesting question:

Do we only care about these things for the few moments in which they directly apply to us personally?

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  1. moq8 reblogged this from abbyjean
  2. squashed answered: No. We fit a line to data points as best we can to decide what is true. Truth is subjective experience held together by myth.
  3. brassknucklesanddonuts reblogged this from abbyjean
  4. abbyjean reblogged this from kohenari and added:
    my answer to this...basically, yes. people generally care about things that affect them...
  5. resham reblogged this from kohenari
  6. ilyagerner answered: Seems like outrage stems from middle-class whites disliking being in a subordinate position of a dominance hierarchy…
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