International Holocaust Remembrance Day
On January 27th each year, we remember the victims of the Nazi era. The theme of this year’s remembrance day is Children and the Holocaust.
On how more information can narrow, rather than widen horizons:
“What choice gives us, what choice of information gives us, is the ability to misinform ourselves in all kinds of new ways. If you can have a discussion with someone next to you who says, ‘I think X is correct,’ and the other person says, ‘I think Y is correct,’ and then you can turn around to your mutual computers and then build a case for why you’re both wrong — then all of a sudden, that synthesis that has really made … democracy great starts going away. We lose our ability to synthesize when we can always prove ourselves right.”
