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marmar

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Sat Nov 7, 2020, 09:05 PM Nov 2020

Lost in the Fog of Four Years in Trump's America


Lost in the Fog of Four Years in Trump’s America
I've used TV to anesthetize myself to the outside world. But that ends now.

Libby Hill
Nov 5, 2020 11:45 am


(Indie Wire) My Netflix history lies to me. But I suspect it’s for my own good.

Before I started writing this piece, I wanted to see if I could size up how bad the situation was. When I checked, I saw only partial truths. Yes, I’d watched the entire run of “Great British Bake Off” over the last few weeks, it assured me. That’s fine! Plenty of people binge shows! It’s a pandemic! You’re stressed!

But I knew better. See, not only had I watched the entirety of “Great British Bake Off” seasons available to stream, I had done so multiple times. On repeat. For weeks on end. According to Netflix, though, it was just the once. Much like how Spotify doesn’t call in a wellness check when you listen to the same sad song for two and half months straight, Netflix scrubs your viewing history to only show an episode of a series once. I’m sure their internal records still record the truth and that the uncaring monolith judges me accordingly, but it never lets it show. It knows, perhaps, what’s up.

...(snip)....

This is all to say that the 2016 election broke me. Hillary Clinton was my deeply-flawed hero and I truly believed that when it came right down to it, the country would identify and select the “lesser of two evils.” I was wrong. And suddenly, America was not a country that I recognized anymore.

Except, America hadn’t changed. America was the same as it ever was. I was just seeing it for the first time, as reality was finally beginning to erode the rose-colored glasses of privilege. Or so I thought. ............(more)

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/11/four-years-in-trump-america-1234593230/






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