Masha Gessen Writes about the “Dueling Realities of the Coronavirus in Russia,” and the “Splintered Public Sphere” There and in the US
“It’s not that Russians believe that the virus is a hoax; it’s that they lack common ground with one another. . . . There is no public sphere,” Gessen writes in the New Yorker. “If my English-language social-media feed doesn’t make me feel as if I’m going crazy in the same way that the Russian one does, it’s because I’m virtually situated in a little corner of this country that still has a shared, fact-based reality—and, within it, the flickering possibility of coöperation and mutual responsibility.”
Post Date: 12-05-2020
Post Date: 12-05-2020