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" Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform. "
George Packer
Started
Group
Advocacy
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" Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind. "
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Together
Blue
" I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.' "
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Book
Waiting
Writing
" I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have. "
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Rest
Easy
Connection
" What I found in Silicon Valley is an industry that's sort of been kept a very far remove from Washington and had an attitude of 'Just let us do our thing and make the miracles that people love around the world and leave us alone.' "
George Packer
Us
Alone
Attitude
" 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
" If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't. "
George Packer
Write
Think
Giving
" To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales. "
George Packer
New
Want
World
" The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up. "
George Packer
Grow
Freedom
Never
" Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does. "
George Packer
Journalism
Acting
Experience
" I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed. "
George Packer
You
Time
Thought
" Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived. "
George Packer
Membership
Bar
Answers
" I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology. "
George Packer
Powerful
Political
Psychology
" Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled. "
George Packer
Way
Taboos
About
" If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo. "
George Packer
Process
Cash
Competition
" Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government. "
George Packer
Government
Overcome
Faith
" The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.' "
George Packer
Line
Good
Bottom
" I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse. "
George Packer
My Own
Myself
Need
" So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do. "
George Packer
You
House
Isolation
" 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
" Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know. "
George Packer
People
Look
Powerful
" Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty. "
George Packer
Millions
Uncertainty
Banner
" Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand. "
George Packer
Great
American
Watch
" 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
" Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. "
George Packer
Lack
Age
Journalism
" 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
" Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas. "
George Packer
America
Writing
Way
" Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign. "
George Packer
Ignorance
Identity
Today
" I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. "
George Packer
React
Always
Know
" 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
Africa
Want
Find
" Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy. "
George Packer
Splendid
Fruit
Obama