It is, I think, the journalist's vice to believe that all history can instantly be reduced to experience: {"Pierre, an out-of-work pipe fitter in the suburb of Boulougne, is typical of the new class of chômeurs . . ."} just as it is the scholar's vice to believe that all experience can be reduced to history {"The new world capitalist order produced a new class of chômeurs, of whom Pierre, a pipe fitter, was a typical case . . ."}.
( Adam Gopnik )
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