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(A)If people seek the newest thing that is hyped, it is likely to be a frivolity, something of little weight or importance.
(B)The news, for example, is hyped to draw our attention to the “hot story” of the moment, but does little to place events in a larger context of historical process.
(C)But confidence in the new is something that has to be created, through the good offices of hype artists who “phony up” futures of newfound pleasures and delights.
(D)People have little sense of temporal placement, of the continuity of national past and present, of the legacy of history and the promise of posterity.