“So much of who we are and how we understand the world is related to the stories we receive. If we are vulnerable to bad stories, we can do horrendous things,” he said.
, who was responsible for a lot of this,” he said, referring to Murdoch, the Australian-born media mogul.
“The easiest way to attract attention without having a lot of imagination, thought or interesting things to say, is just to make people angry and resentful and to make them feel as if somebody’s trying to mess with them and take what’s rightfully theirs.”, Obama said banking regulation was still not as effective as it ought to be.
“There was a little bit too much arrogance about free markets and free trade, and anybody who’s questioning jobs being moved offshore, they’re backwards looking, and ‘everybody’s going to be a coder some day’,” he said.
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