Hold up a mirror, and we’re all to blame
My heavens, what a difficult couple of weeks it’s been. Amen? The Charlie Kirk assassination dropped a match into what was already a box of incendiary material that was passing as coexistence in our society. Seemingly, now even more of us are willing to draw ideological lines in the sand, and to further identify as “us” and “them.” Judging by the number of posts on Facebook boasting about how many people were “unfriended” this past week, it makes me wonder whether the platform’s algorithms will ever recover. The vibe on other social platforms was the same, I ...