Editorial
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
Do you ever feel like the walls have fallen and a flood of hate has overwhelmed the quiet world of what used to be polite discourse and reasoned argument?
That, more than ever, you have to carefully watch your own words to avoid unleashing bitter and hateful responses? Ever want to pull up your tent and head off to live somewhere quieter and, well, just nicer?
It’s not surprising. We’re being trained to think that way, almost every day.
Almost anywhere we go online, we’re surrounded by conspiracy barkers and racism-baiters. And online is ubiquitous — it’s in your living room and in your pocket. It hosts anger and bitterness and unrestrained spite, insults and attacks and threats. And it can’t help but colour your views about your neighbours and even your friends — are they really who they seem to be in your living room, or does a darker side lurk at an anonymous keyboard somewhere as close as the house next door?
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