As far as these two essays go, as I noted to Damir, if you know someone who has been scammed, the scam essay hits a little different. But as to the disintegrating marriage/mental health crisis essay, wow…. I don’t think I needed to know all of that about two people I will never meet.
I wonder how much of this opinion vomit would exist at all if posts were non-existent and people had to write actual letters to the editor. I offer a fourth theory: people are awful, and substantially more so in our new age of fewer gatekeepers and "anonymity first" social mores.
Congrats Christine! I will have to re-up my Atlantic subscription, by far one of the more worth-while periodicals I have ever paid to have mailed to me.
Reminds me of the research Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt have pointed to, about how higher education doesn’t generally make people more open-minded, just better at rationalizing what they already believed
Congrats on the Atlantic!
As far as these two essays go, as I noted to Damir, if you know someone who has been scammed, the scam essay hits a little different. But as to the disintegrating marriage/mental health crisis essay, wow…. I don’t think I needed to know all of that about two people I will never meet.
I wonder how much of this opinion vomit would exist at all if posts were non-existent and people had to write actual letters to the editor. I offer a fourth theory: people are awful, and substantially more so in our new age of fewer gatekeepers and "anonymity first" social mores.
Congrats Christine! I will have to re-up my Atlantic subscription, by far one of the more worth-while periodicals I have ever paid to have mailed to me.
Reminds me of the research Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt have pointed to, about how higher education doesn’t generally make people more open-minded, just better at rationalizing what they already believed