You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've never experienced before. So I think just because of the media landscape and the way we get our information now, we're more atomized and isolated from each other than ever before.
Matt TaibbiIn America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
Matt TaibbiAmerica is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
Matt TaibbiThe significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.
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