…most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance…

Today there are too many voices, too many media, too many histories, too many countries, ethnicities, genders, classes, too much to convey, too much to absorb or master or remember. Today we have lived through too much to not understand that the past is never fixed, quiet, its issues settled once and for all. We know that other explanations have been made and soon new ones will be made for what we once believed, or thought, or did, or hoped to do, or would have liked to do. This change does not only effect events in the past, but also those who feel their task is to preserve them: we historians. ——Adventures of a Postmodern Historian: Living and Writing the Past

I hope you'll eat some of my hot rolls. You have to eat and keep going. Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this.
我希望你们能尝尝我的热面包卷。你们得吃东西，得撑下去。碰上这种时候，吃东西就是一件小小的好事。
(A Small, Good Thing, Raymond Carver)