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No, I think you would have to go back to the sixties to echo the political climate (and I am not that old). There have been other points of great instability and fear though (9-11 comes to mind) in my career.
Biggest difference in my personal experience is that there is a great divide, largely political, in the general population and stronger convictions in those beliefs. Not as much middle ground.
Certainly, the media doesn’t help this due to certain changes. Mainly, the media is now configured in a way to reinforce the beliefs of a particular population - artificial intelligence recommending articles based on your history, channels being very biased to a political party, etc.
The media truly has become the enemy of all people IMO
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I wasn’t there — far too young for that. But I do think the late 60s were much worse. Watch the films. Police firing water cannons, dogs, etc. with people dying, neighborhoods burning down. Today you have police kneeling with the generally peaceful protestors and mainly needing to confront a separate and relatively small group of looters/agitators/etc. To me that is progress.
I do recall something closer to the late 60s in Seattle around some WTO meeting in the late 90s...but that was fairly contained.
In the end, I think all of this strife is actually good as it leads to progress. There’s lots of research showing that diverse groups that need to make a decision have a lot of conflict and feel worse about it but ultimately reach better decisions. I think the same concept applies here.
The closest thing in my teenage/adult life was the Rodney King riots. This has a much different feel though. There was fear after 9/11 but at least back then we were united as country.
It’s very similar to 1968. Recent articles have pointed this out. Everything cycles. People don’t know anything that happened 25 years ago let alone 50 or 100. That’s why the best pattern for the pandemic is 1918 not what some 40 year old thinks. Your ancestors were smarter than you think.
Media is the same (“you provide the pictures and I’ll provide the war”). People are the same. Every once in awhile society loses it. Best article I saw was titled something like “now you know why your grandparents acted that way. “
I love the opening statement
Yes, but if was a good question though. But not only for partners, Anyone who has seen the previous situations.
Taking it one day at a time...
Had two conversations today that were relevant to this topic. The first was with my retired father who became a professor. It reminded him a lot of the late 60s, but perhaps a bit more frightening.
The second was a mentoring session with someone from my prior firm. We were talking about contextualizing comments and reactions by considering how people a) make money b) derive power and c) grow their influence. Their offhand comment to me was that that was kind of an eye opening way to look at the actions/statements/positions of various groups and people over the last couple of months. I thought that was a very astute observation.
When MLK was assassinated and then RFK was shot 2 months later, then Vietnam...that is what I’m hearing people liken this moment in history to.
Bowl Leader
Yeah, but objectively, I don’t see the case for it being that bad
Be careful blaming the media. Root cause analysis will show you that they reflect other societal trends. This is bigger than media.
I disagree. All statistics point to the bias and distortions of media coverage. The media have become commentators not journalists. They practice journalistic malpractice everyday. Hannity/Carlson and Cuomo/Stelter are not journalists and are not positioned as such - they should not be used as examples with this issue. Rather the people doing the evening news, publishing the NYT/WaPo etc are supposed to be journalists but they aren’t. They are biased indoctrinators, fear mongers, and activists. There is massive evidence to support their bias and violation of journalistic standards. Just look at the lack of balance in journalists’ political affiliations and donations.