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Jon Ronson on Empathy, Culture Wars, and Finding Community

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Are We So Wrapped Up?

As as culture fractured, there stopped being any large things to be a part of. These events are kind of te only, other than sports, they're the only mass culture left. I was thinking, when when you were describing everybody sitting down together to watch friends, i was imagining a room full of people watching friends. That's more likely to happen on social media because there isn't the your personal human connection. There's one episode of things fell apart, where i tell the story of this man called steve peters. And it's incredibly moving, probably the mest moving story i've told. It's a story about warring factions in a culture war.

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