Hello and welcome again to How to Kill a Sacred Cow, Episode 3.

I am Jay Hennahan, and I have with me today, James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. James,

how are you doing today? I'm doing pretty good. Thanks for having me on. Oh, thanks for coming, man. So this is,

we're going to try this again last time we tried having a conversation about two weeks ago and

my backup failed. But yeah, so I wanted to have you on, James, to talk about public discourse

in the Internet age. And I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about a couple of books that I read in the past.

One of them was Walter Lipman's public opinion.

And the other one was Neil Postman's amusing ourselves to death.

So Libman's book basically stated that humans have found themselves in such a state that the world has become so complex that they have to reduce everything to stereotypes in order to speak with each other about them.

And Lipman's book deals with the degradation of discourse in the age of show business.

Now, he was writing that back in the days of television back in the 80s and 90s. And I think if he

were still alive, he would have a lot to say about the internet age. But James, my question to you is

how have things changed in the internet age for public discourse and how do you deal with it in

your interactions with people online?

Well, just to correct you there, I think Lipman died in 1974, so were you referring to Postman

in the 80s and 90s?

Did I say, yeah, yeah, Postman died.

Yes, I see.

Sorry.

Yeah. Okay. Yes. yeah. Yeah, I see. Sorry.

Yeah.

Okay, yes.

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