The popularity of listicles reflects a more profound reality that we need a way to filter and process the information being thrown at us.
At one point, the narrator asks, "Was there in art a more profound reality, in which our true personality finds an expression that is not afforded it by the activities of life?" The sentence paints a picture of European civilization in majestic repose, with music shining at its center.
In the long haul, the assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel have made a difference, providing a reliable compass pointing unerringly toward the profound reality of an increasingly human-shaped climate.
But for my own part, this idiom seems to betray a more treacherous and profound reality.
The relationship of blacks and whites is, after all, "a blood relationship, perhaps the most profound reality of the American experience," and cannot be understood until we recognize how much it contains of "the force and anguish and terror of love".
The profound reality is that it is an existential issue and an entity to be reckoned with.
Directionally, at least, they signaled a profound new reality of political economy and social life.
Even if the CIA's allegations of deliberate Russian meddling in the American election in Trump's favor prove to be flimsy, a profound new reality is reshaping Western politics.
