Citas de George Packer

• Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

  George Packer

  Principles, Different, Answers

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• La desigualdad endurece la sociedad en un sistema de clases. La desigualdad nos divide unos de otros... La desigualdad socava la democracia.

  George Packer

  Class, Democracy, Inequality

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• We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

  George Packer

  Desea

  George Packer (2015). “Blood of the Liberals”, p.402, Macmillan

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• This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

  George Packer

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Victim

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

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  Disappointment, Fear, Heart

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• Tenemos toda la información del universo al alcance de la mano, mientras que nuestros problemas más básicos siguen sin resolverse año tras año... A nuestro alrededor, vemos cambios tecnológicos deslumbrantes, pero ningún progreso.

  George Packer

  Years, Technological Change, Progress

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• It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

  George Packer

  Amazon, Bookstores, Seems

  "Cheap Words" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 17 & 24, 2014.

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• Es curioso leer el trabajo de ex marines y ex soldados, porque lo que me decían a mí como periodista era sólo una fracción de lo que pensaban, sentían y se decían unos a otros.

  George Packer

  Marine, Thinking, Feelings

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

  George Packer

  War, Party, Independent

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• Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

  George Packer

  Self Confidence, Age, Jargon

  "Telling Stories About the Future of Journalism" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• El testimonio de Petraeus-Crocker es el tipo de acontecimiento efímero en el que se ha basado la Administración para apuntalar el apoyo a la guerra: la declaración de "Misión Cumplida", las muertes de Uday y Qusay Hussein, la captura de Sadam, el traspaso de soberanía, las tres rondas de votaciones, el Plan para la Victoria, la muerte de Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Cada nuevo hito, por ilusorio que sea, permite a la Administración evitar pensar en el futuro, en los años en que los errores de Irak seguirán persiguiendo a Estados Unidos.

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  Guerra, Error, Pensamiento

  "Planning for Defeat" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2007.

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• When Donald Trump yells at his supporters to throw somebody out of the hall - and usually that somebody is brown or black or often is - that means he's galvanizing a kind of mob spirit, which is also a racial mob spirit.

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  Mean, Often Is, Black

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

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  Country, Democracy, United States

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• Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers.

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  País, Gobierno, Clase

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• Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

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  Class, Ambitious, Sap

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• I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

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  Thinking, Would Be, American History

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

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  Party, Self, Broken

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• El carácter es el destino, y los políticos suelen tener los escándalos que se merecen, con una sensación de inevitabilidad al respecto.

  George Packer

  Character, Destiny, Scandal

  "The Trouble with Christie" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 13, 2014.

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• Twitter is crack for media addicts.

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  Media, Cracks, Addict

  "Stop the World" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2010.

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• In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many interest groups but is simply the dominant group, now as whites become - are close to becoming a minority of Americans, are becoming a political interest group. And that's what Donald Trump is playing to. And it's a really dangerous, volatile game.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Games, Political

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• La identidad y los objetivos de Amazon nunca están claros y siempre son fluidos, lo que hace que la empresa sea desestabilizadora e intimidante.

  George Packer

  Goal, Identity, Amazon

  "Amazon's Bold Plan to Start a Last-Place TV Network" by Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. March 28, 2014.

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• The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

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  Age, Lines, Invisibility

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Oil, Apples, Google

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

  George Packer

  War, Opposites, Arches

  "Terms of Crisis" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.

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• With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

  George Packer

  Internet, Invisible, Economy

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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