David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show':
David Simon: Capitalism in America has lost sight of its social compact
I agree with a lot of this. The specific policies will always be (and should be) subject to debate, but I think he has a real point about how we have lost sight of how connected we all are and the responsibility that creates. Extra ironic in the age of “social media”, which, I have to say, seems more and more like just some sort of refracting mirror for group narcissism than any actual driver of socializing and connection. (Not all the time, not all the people, but I think there is something in the way it connects only to “neighbors” we choose that pulls us away from our real-world interconnectedness in a stultifying way.)