There’s an oddly strong in-the-moment consensus on how everyone is feeling these days, and it is not good. It takes a certain amount of hindsight to notice how all the wildly different reactions people had to the moment were still, in the end, reactions to the same thing all the different poses they adopted were still being struck against the same backdrop.īut this era - this year, and the last one, and one or two before that - might be an exception.
It usually takes a while - a decade or two - before we can look back at a particular era of American life and see it as something coherent, something whose every aspect is marked by one overarching mood.
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