This. It's surreal how little we humans can place sustained attention on the truly catastrophic things happening around us. Two things I can't shake:
1. In a Masha Gessen piece in the New Yorker a few years ago, they wrote (paraphrasing): People living in totalitarian dictatorships have brunch on the weekends too.
2. Walking around our neighborhood a few months ago, my daughter asked, "Is the battle between Russia and Ukraine still going on?" and I said, "Unfortunately, it is." and she said, "Oh, I thought it might have ended since everyone took their blue and yellow flags down."
The half-life of an event in public consciousness is wild. We poke fun of “awareness” as an end goal, but keeping any topic in focus needs a full-time staff, slick branding, and luck. Also, what battle? Is this a new show?
“Fist fights in Eden.”
A perfect line.
Thank you! I was hoping it was at least band-worthy.
"Wars last longer than news cycles."
This. It's surreal how little we humans can place sustained attention on the truly catastrophic things happening around us. Two things I can't shake:
1. In a Masha Gessen piece in the New Yorker a few years ago, they wrote (paraphrasing): People living in totalitarian dictatorships have brunch on the weekends too.
2. Walking around our neighborhood a few months ago, my daughter asked, "Is the battle between Russia and Ukraine still going on?" and I said, "Unfortunately, it is." and she said, "Oh, I thought it might have ended since everyone took their blue and yellow flags down."
The half-life of an event in public consciousness is wild. We poke fun of “awareness” as an end goal, but keeping any topic in focus needs a full-time staff, slick branding, and luck. Also, what battle? Is this a new show?
The battle show peaked too early. The initial episodes were must-see TV but then the plot got repetitive.