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On Soren Kierkegaard\'s essay "The Present Age" (1846) and Hubert Dreyfus\\u2019s "Nihilism on the Information Highway: Anonymity vs. Commitment in the Present Age" (2004).
What\'s wrong with our society? Kierkegaard saw the advent of the press and gossip culture as engendering a systematic passivity and shallowness in his fellows, and Dreyfus thinks this is an even more apt description of the Internet Age. With guest John Ganz.
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