Here’s the safest Super Bowl bet yet. The opinion makers will pronounce:
So-and-so soared. Soupy-doopy flopped. Usher tanked the halftime show or dazzled. And Taylor jetted and cheered or distracted and interfered.
So many opinions. We’ll feast on them for days.
Opinions. They tumble out ever faster and on ever more topics.
The Super Bowl, yes. ’Tis February, after all.
And politics. It’s an election year.
Jan. 6. Three-plus years ago, and still more opinions.
Immigration. Any year since forever.
Wars in Gaza and Europe. Guns. Abortion. Books. Free speech, due process. CRT, DEI, discrimination. Cancel culture. Who’s a woman, who’s a man, who’s a jerk.
Cable news pays people to pronounce – instantly, ahead of facts, with little thought. Social media does the same and more. Podcasts pummel us.
Are there more opinions today? Probably not. But algorithms now dial up our anger, harden our divisions, encourage performative yapping, and send us into the deceiving comfort of our ideological ghettos. The coffee klatch and office watercooler have gone global.
How ’bout we unplug the Instant Opinion Machine? And just talk.
30-Second Read on getting along
Can’t we be nice to each other?
‘A sort of mental kaleidoscope’
Wow! Nice work. In 30 seconds you offered a lot to think about. What I liked about the Superbowl, even the commercials, was that I felt no need to form opinions. I simply enjoyed it.
Thank you, Suzanne!