Do you get that alarming feeling, right now, that everything is suddenly, rapidly, falling apart?
At the same time, does everything also feel strangely less real to you, as though modern life were just one big, phoney act – a performative parade of political spin, sloganeering, social-media campaigning, simulated outrage, and petty culture war point-scoring?
These two things are connected.
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