Word: forster
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...Reported by Ann Blackman, Polly Forster and Dick Thompson/Washington...
...With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny / Detroit; Polly Forster / Washington; Tim Larimer / Tokyo; and Mike Eskenazi and John Greenwald / New York
...wonder if we really want to have as much to do with one another as we have always claimed to want. Connectedness--that was supposed to be the desperate cry of a world frightened by modernity. "Only connect," pleaded E.M. Forster at the outset of the century. Inventions were concocted to bring us closer to one another, the machinery of communication especially. Observe a riot of fans at a soccer game and see how close we are. Historically, there has never been as much communication as in our 20th century, or as much mass murder. Communication, mistaken for a virtue...