Thank you. I gleaned that quote from an ordinarily accurate source. It appears that my source did some para-phasing.
The truth is that your “find” makes Mr. Jefferson’s feeling on the subject EVEN more strident and intense!
I shall begin using YOUR cite though, given the shortened attention span of today’s population, it may be necessary to - as accurately as possible - apply some out of quotation para-phrasing there as well. I suspect that problem is what prompted MY source to do so.
On that attention span thing, I recently heard a presentation by a man who’s spent 20 years in the visual media business. I was shocked to learn that his experience with the Generation Xers and Millennials is as follows:
* Most of them DO NOT READ BOOKS but get their information from their electronic devices (smart phones, tablets, computers).
* If something they “click” on doesn’t grab their attention in the first 8 seconds, THEY’RE GONE!
* Even if they’re “hooked” in those first 8 seconds, most of them will TUNE OUT if it runs much over 2 minutes.
THAT EXPLAINS A LOT DOESN’T IT?
Years ago there was a TV program called “The Short Attention Span Theater”. Looks like we’re there!
Just in the sense of that quote and Europe, I noticed that the EU has returned the wolf-sheep paradigm of rule to the continent. The more things change, etc.