{"id":5126,"date":"2022-04-22T23:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T23:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2022-04-22T23:35:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T23:35:59","slug":"why-the-past-10-years-of-american-life-have-been-uniquely-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/22\/why-the-past-10-years-of-american-life-have-been-uniquely-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep trying to get a chance to reread this before posting it, but I don&#8217;t know when that&#8217;s going to happen. As usual Haidt is a strong and distinctive writer and thinker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s been clear for quite a while now that red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the same territory, with two different versions of the Constitution, economics, and American history. But Babel is not a story about tribalism; it\u2019s a story about the fragmentation of everything. It\u2019s about the shattering of all that had seemed solid, the scattering of people who had been a community. It\u2019s a metaphor for what is happening not only between red and blue, but within the left and within the right, as well as within universities, companies, professional associations, museums, and even families.<\/p>\n<p>Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country\u2019s future\u2014and to us as a people. How did this happen? And what does it portend for American life?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2022\/05\/social-media-democracy-trust-babel\/629369\/\">Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep trying to get a chance to reread this before posting it, but I don&#8217;t know when that&#8217;s going to happen. As usual Haidt is a strong and distinctive writer and thinker. It\u2019s been clear for quite a while now that red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1kG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}