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> I’m gonna stop reading the news, it’s too much stress for me.

While in college, I read the newspaper each and every day, cover to cover... from 100 years ago. (Microfiche... those were the days.)

Anyway, I found that all the same issues (drugs, abortion, corruption, race relations, etc) were discussed. With the same arguments on both sides.

It gave me a lot of perspective that my contemporaries didn’t have.

Highly recommend it.

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Whoa that's really interesting & something I might try. Where'd you find these newspapers?

At the library. Microfiche. I'd get a bagel and coffee, walk across courtyard to the library, and read through that days paper (100 years back.)

Very depressing comparing the news then to now... if there was a bill at issue, the text of the bill would be included in full. The grammar was perfect. Few typos. Vocabulary was rich. In short, it was well-written and edited. There is nothing like it ... anywhere ... any more.

Sorry I assumed Microfiche was some German word for nostalgia or something similar LOL. I'm not sure how accessible microforms would be to me today but I'm sure I can find general archives somewhere.

Thanks for sharing!

Lapham’s Quarterly is good for this too: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/

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