British philosopher Alain de Botton observed that “the obsession with current events is relentless. We are made to feel that at any point, somewhere on the globe, something may occur to sweep away old certainties — somethings that, if we failed to learn about it instantaneously, could leave us wholly unable to comprehend ourselves or our fellows. We are…
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