Nietzsche on Newspapers and Prayer – Allan Bloom

„Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.“

Dr. Alan BloomAllan Bloom presents Nietzsche's reflection on newspapers replacing prayer and the loss of spiritual depth in modern daily life.
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Dr. Alan Bloom was a respected cultural scholar who specialized in the significance of art and culture for children.

This quote explores the contrast between the daily flood of news and spiritual reflection in modern society.


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Dr. Alan Bloom was a renowned cultural scholar and educator who focused extensively on the role of art in child development and the culture industry. His work highlights how certain media and art forms are tailored specifically toward young audiences.

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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislative power, the executive, and the judiciary. And one would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?" Alexander Solschenizyn
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