Guerilla Readers: January Discussion 2

Our comment/conversation space on Monday’s discussion is still open, in case you haven’t had a chance to get there yet. And here are three more questions for you to consider as we head into the weekend:

• In an interview, HCR has said that she wants to equip her students to filter the important takeaways from the endless barrage of information that confronts them every day. We’ve been inundated this week with a tsunami of real events, repeated lies, and performative acts by the new president. Do you feel that HCR’s book has given you any “filters” that have helped you to better understand what’s going on? If so, how what are they? How have they served you?

• Have you noted and thought about some item(s) in the flow of news that you might not have noticed before you read HCR’s book?

• Has reading this book changed the way you look at the past? Or the way you think about and imagine the future? Or the way you handle incoming information in the present? (This is a question I hope we’ll ask ourse…