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Texas Monthly – From the Editor: The Good News

Texas Monthly – From the Editor: The Good News

Posted on November 15, 2023

In my teens, I heard a radio commentator explain why our airwaves and periodicals are so filled with stories of failure and tragedy. News, he observed, is that which is unusual. In the United States, conditions are so salutary, relative to much of the world and even to our past, that advances in, say, air transportation and financial markets are far more commonplace than crashes. By contrast, I recall the commentator arguing, in China and Russia life is so tough that newspapers lead their front pages with headlines along the lines of “Heroic Bootmakers Exceed Quotas.” We should, he concluded, be grateful to live in a country that trumpets its shortcomings. I’ve pondered that observation the past few months, and I wonder whether something has shifted…

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