Michael A. Levin: I would also take talking TV, which offers as much intellectualism. At the time, I thought they were vapid. Compared to what we have, these people seem like well-read giants.

It’s amazing how much of this amounts to “we want tv to be exciting”

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I used to be so bored as a kid during the McLaughlin Group on Sunday mornings that I wanted to fall back asleep and now I would give anything for politics to be that dull again Exciting politics is an adrenaline response to survival instincts; getting functional policy is meant to be boring

I would also take talking TV, which offers as much intellectualism. At the time, I thought they were vapid. Compared to what we have, these people seem like well-read giants.

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