Lots to dig into in this intelligent screed from Dave Pell, including this bit on our bubbling off into separate bubbles.
Segregation: This election displayed a remarkable geopolitical split between cities and inner suburbs, and outer suburbs and rural areas. This makes perfect sense. We never interact. Many of us hoped that the internet would increase our interaction with people who didn’t look and think like us. Sadly, it merely offered us the opportunity to create and live in digital silos of homogenization.
This segregation makes us perfect targets for the political messages of those who would choose to divide us. It’s much easier to stereotype the other when you never see the other.
Discovered at Daring Fireball. Here’s what Gruber said.
One, I’ve struggled mightily to put my thoughts together. This piece by Dave Pell does a hell of a good job of that.
Second, because I know that many of you are struggling with this, Daring Fireball can serve as a place where you turn to think about something else. It felt good to write yesterday’s analysis of the new MacBook Pros. But I can’t ignore it forever, and you shouldn’t either.
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