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The numbers were off - 2, 0, 2, 7….Ĭould this be a phone number? I tried dialing the first ten numbers, and got an automated message of a woman’s voice in a nebulous accent reading another series of numbers.
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Last week, I saw an ad for a movie in the newspaper, with an old clock in the background. Now let’s try something completely different. I hope you and your friend are still on speaking terms after our fun collaborative activity. Whether you retweet it or just email it to a friend, the end effect on your network of like-minded contacts - on who believes what - will be the same. And even if you do, how much will it really help? Everyone else will spread it anyway. If it seems too good to be true, maybe you’ll pull up Snopes and check it first. Take a moment to reflect on the feeling you get when you see a headline, factoid, or meme that is so perfect, that so neatly addresses some burning controversy or narrative, that you feel compelled to share it.
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What we haven’t figured out how to make sense of yet is the fun that many Americans act like they’re having with the national fracture. We hear about the alone-togetherness of this all.
We hear that people who feel that society has left them behind find consolation in QAnon or in anti-vax Facebook groups. We hear that alienation drives young men to become radicalized on Gab and 4chan. We hear that online life has fragmented our “information ecosystem,” that this breakup has been accelerated by social division, and vice versa.
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Of course, we have heard no end of laments for the loss of the TV era’s unity.
Nobody was tuning in to the same broadcast anymore. Beginning with whether banning foreign travel or using the label “Wuhan virus” was racist, to later mask mandates, school closures, lockdowns, and vaccine requirements, we googled, shared, liked, and blocked our way apart. But instead of unity, American society has experienced tremendous fragmentation throughout the pandemic. Just as in 2001, in 2020 we faced a powerful external threat and had a government willing to meet it. It is hard to imagine how we would have experienced 9/11 in the era of Facebook and Twitter, but the pandemic provides a suggestive example. Dan Rather (CBS), Tom Brokaw (NBC), and Peter Jennings (ABC) Americans have always been divided on important issues, but this level of pulling-your-hair-out, how-can-you-possibly-believe-that division feels like something else. On issue after issue of vital public importance, people feel that those on the other side are not merely wrong but crazy - crazy to believe what they do about voter ID, Russiagate, critical race theory, pronouns and gender affirmation, take your pick. Today, just about the only thing everyone agrees on is how divided we are. However briefly, everyone was united in grief and anger, and a palpable sense of social solidarity pervaded our communities. If you ask Americans when was the last time they recall feeling truly united as a country, people over the age of thirty will almost certainly point to the aftermath of 9/11. It is not uncommon for survivors of the attacks to mention in interviews or recollections that they did not know what was going on because they did not view it on TV. News anchors Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw, broadcasting without ad breaks, held the nation in their thrall for days, probably for the last time. For most Americans, “where you were on 9/11” is mostly the story of how one came to find oneself watching it all unfold on TV. From the Special Series: Reality: A Post-MortemĮveryone talks about television when remembering that day.
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