"Mr. de Botton defended his book’s grim attitude toward modern media “The news takes us to the edge of something deeply interesting – but then abandons us to the process Aristotle calls catharsis,” he said, referring to the way modern news lays out the facts but resists coming to any conclusions or exposing bias. “That explains the background anxiety that the news consistently creates.” The premise of his book, he said in introductory remarks, is that news occupies religion’s former place in society, an idea he borrows from Hegel." - Adriano