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The Sunday Read: ‘How Noah Baumbach Made “White Noise” a Disaster Movie for Our Moment’
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The Emotional Insulation of the World
Culture allows people to edit reality in such a way that the perils pressing in on all sides are screened out of their line of vision as they go about their daily rounds. People stripped of the ability to screen out signs of peril are not just unusually vigilant and unusually anxious, Erickson writes. The final act of bound back was about recognizing that all that emotional insulation we put in place isn't cheap or trivial. It includes art, marriage, parenthood, love, stuff that's no less real than the darkness we're using it to repress. There is joy in that too, in what we invent out of this mess, bound back said.
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