You and I worked together on 9/11, and it's the last time I can remember when the clock TRULY stopped at work. Even in 2016, when I took the bus to work in downtown San Francisco the morning it was clear Trump had won the election and everyone looked totally dazed, I booted up and got going like all was the same in the world.
Somehow I've fully avoided the anomie and depression that comes from the spot-on everyday dissonance you mention but it just means something about my own physiology or brain chemistry or coping skills. It doesn't mean it's not totally real - and even logical - for so many others. The key, and I'm not sure of this, is whether it's truly unique to our age and times or part of a continuum, and we're just too self-centered and/or frankly UNABLE to know if this is the way it's always been.
You and I worked together on 9/11, and it's the last time I can remember when the clock TRULY stopped at work. Even in 2016, when I took the bus to work in downtown San Francisco the morning it was clear Trump had won the election and everyone looked totally dazed, I booted up and got going like all was the same in the world.
Somehow I've fully avoided the anomie and depression that comes from the spot-on everyday dissonance you mention but it just means something about my own physiology or brain chemistry or coping skills. It doesn't mean it's not totally real - and even logical - for so many others. The key, and I'm not sure of this, is whether it's truly unique to our age and times or part of a continuum, and we're just too self-centered and/or frankly UNABLE to know if this is the way it's always been.