Political media obsession deepens personal isolation and relational divides. [connection]
My obsession has become a growing gulf between Avi and me. And not just between us—it is intensifying my already deep isolation, cutting me off further from other friends and family. No one I know listens to War Room, and I feel increasingly that it is impossible to understand the new shape of politics without listening to it.
XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of political polarization fracturing interpersonal relationships, and to the phenomenon of niche media creating epistemic insularity.
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 291