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Pirate Wires @PirateWires on x 131.4K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 16:49:23 UTC
NEW: XX Years... After AOL
A few weeks ago, a Gallup poll showed that pride in America had fallen to a historic low, especially among people under XX. The usual suspects were blamed: critical race theory; “America-as-global-villain” narratives in public education; unassimilated immigrants; no recent national tragedy to inflame patriotic sentiment of a generation too young to remember 9/11…
But maybe it runs deeper.
Everyone under XX grew up on the internet, and when you’re enmeshed in media that splinters society into various “communities” (for better or for worse) your loyalties are far more likely to lie with a chosen tribe — fandom, politics, some hyperniche subreddit — than with your country.
Today in Pirate Wires, @katrosenfield delivers a review of Danny Boyle’s new thriller that also doubles as a parable for how going online fundamentally altered culture, turning us against each other (and ourselves).
American nationalism didn’t collapse overnight. Arguably, it began in the 90s, when we were carpetbombed by AOL mass mailers opening a portal from every computer into the infinite universe of the internet.
The zombie apocalypse already happened, we just call it “the internet.” Full story threaded. 👇
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