One late-nineteenth-century morning, two Viennese Jews meet at the rack of bamboo newspaper holders in their neighborhood cafe. Goldstein reaches for the leading liberal daily; Rosenzweig takes a scurrilous anti-Semitic tabloid.
"Good God, Herr Rosenzweig," says Goldstein, "what are you picking up that garbage for?"
"I'll tell you," Rosenzweig answers. "In your paper, I read about old Jewish men murdered in Romania, about Jewish women raped by Cossacks in Russia, about Captain Dreyfus unjustly accused in France. In this one, I read that Jews control the banks and stock exchanges, that we hoard sacks of gold in our cellars, that every government on earth trembles at our orders. I prefer good news."
People's attention is scarce. Do not abuse it.
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