Renee DiRestaAs I head into my eighth month of having become a bête noire in the cinematic universe of Substack propagandists & partisan hacks with a victim complex, I feel that the full scale of the splintering of American society into bespoke realities has not yet been fully internalized by most people.
Rob Gwin@Noupside Is it possible we're just coming full circle to our default pre-radio/tv/internet state? Were we ever really all "together" or did the early phases of those inventions just give us (specifically, those of us lucky enough to participate) a false sense of it?
@Noupside Like, it was fun to imagine that "everyone" was watching Johnny Carson (or the superbowl, or the moon landing...) at the same time together. But that was an illusion. It never was everyone, and those who were watching weren't having the same experience. It just feels good to imagine we are.