Living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦, there’s almost no reason I should have daily knowledge of what happened in the NYC Mayoral race beyond happening to read a headline about Mamdani winning.
I’m happy for the people who are happy about it, but this is a broken way for us to live.
@briandigital Just in the general sense of knowing everything about everywhere all the time. Nothing against NYC or politics or anything like that. The inverse where nobody in NYC knows anything about who’s the mayor of my city is probably healthier is all I mean?
@iChris I think the human mind has scaled to cope with local and maybe regional issues, but, yes, I think the explosion in the availability of news, which I think of as generally good… we are not adapted to. Or perhaps the medium is not adapted to us.
@briandigital I’m assuming (not a safe thing I realize) you’re American or in the USA? I don’t know if Americans realize just how much of their news occupies the rest of the world’s attention, whether we want it or not. Certainly the case up here in Canada. I’m just trying to pull back a little.
@iChris further - many non-Americans have a better understanding of what’s going here than we do - not bc they’re fans, but bc they are the ones who have to bear the political and social impact of U.S. ruling class whims.