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" I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard. "
George Packer
Secret
Job
First
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Perfect
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" All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places. "
George Packer
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Want
Find
" Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country. "
George Packer
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" The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive - that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume and so endlessly available. "
George Packer
Available
Opinion
Stars
" The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government. "
George Packer
America
Tea
Real
" A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another. "
George Packer
Almost
World
Curious
" What can one man do even if he is the president? "
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He
President
Man
" Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought. "
George Packer
Face
Past
Hero
" Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda. "
George Packer
Focused
Games
Propaganda
" Foreign policy exactly suits Obama's strong points as a leader, which turn out not to be giving the masses a clear sense of direction and hope, but instead exercising good judgment on a case-by-case basis while thinking many steps ahead of the present moment. "
George Packer
Strong
Good
Hope
" As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything. "
George Packer
Citizen
America
Country
" America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach. "
George Packer
Only
Working
Out
" Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform. "
George Packer
Started
Group
Advocacy
" The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.' "
George Packer
Change
Talk
Change The World
" It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers - very smart people. "
George Packer
Class
People
Real
" 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. "
George Packer
Line
Age
Work
" Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters. "
George Packer
More
Over
Like
" It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. "
George Packer
Soviet
Europe
Going
" The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable. "
George Packer
Technology
Revolution
Politics
" Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands. "
George Packer
Money
Journalism
Digital
" Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care. "
George Packer
Power
Care
Debt
" The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic. "
George Packer
Compromise
House
People
" The Olympics are never just about sports. "
George Packer
About
Sports
Just
" 'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in Iraq, and there is no doubt about where it is going and what kind of groundwork is being laid. "
George Packer
Doubt
Consequences
War
" I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse. "
George Packer
My Own
Myself
Need
" Jay-Z has kind of shown that you can get to the very top without waiting, without following rules. In fact, it's better if you don't. People will admire you more if you break the rules. "
George Packer
Rules
Top
You
" Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy. "
George Packer
Splendid
Fruit
Obama
" Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing. "
George Packer
Control
Wrong
Matter
" Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected. "
George Packer
Value
Google
Long
" For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease. "
George Packer
Mother
Sister
Silence