It is a bit frustrating for me to work on problems that have no solution because I like to "finish" things. My recent exposure to frameworks for analyzing communications and culture have me seeing a never-ending communication problem everywhere I look.
Today I was caught this fascinating book review in the library. I wont read the book the review was VERY interesting. It seems that we American's are forever living in a bubble of our own imagination and even our nationally recognized "experts" suffer from that same bias. If it didnt happen here, it didnt happen... It is odd to be such an open and isolationist country at the same time.
For a taste of the review, here is the closing paragraph :)
A Story Still to Be Told
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis Penguin, 333 pp., $27.95
read the whole article yerself
Thus while it may seem tempting to dismiss John Lewis Gaddis's history of the cold war as a naively self-congratulatory account which leaves out much of what makes its subject interesting and of continuing relevance, that would be a mistake. Gaddis's version is perfectly adapted for contemporary America: an anxious country curiously detached from its own past as well as from the rest of the world and hungry for "a fireside fairytale with a happy ending."[20] The Cold War: A New History is likely to be widely read in the US: both as history and, in the admiring words of a blurb on the dust jacket, for the "lessons" it can teach us in how to "deal with new threats." That is a depressing thought.
