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Opinion: Is It Just Me, or Is the World Finally Starting to Feel Normal Again?

If you spend enough time on your phone, the world starts to feel like a pretty bleak place.

It is loud, angry, and constant, a stream of outrage and division that never really lets up, no matter how far you scroll or how many times you refresh the homepage.

That is life in the post-social, social media age, where people are technically connected but increasingly detached from anything that feels genuine.

Many of us scroll until our eyes are strained as we consume content that is carefully curated by algorithms that profit off keeping us agitated, distracted, and buying crap from China.

And if it feels like the negativity has been turned up in recent years, that is because it has. Coming out of the pandemic, it felt like a multitude of tech and social factors had killed off what made living near other people fun.

That era was led politically by Joe Biden, who — along with the media and Big Tech — did everything possible to demonize traditional behavior and social mores, and to isolate and divide people.

The legacy of those years still lingers online through a constant sense that everything is on the verge of collapse, or that the best is way behind us.

Meanwhile, out in the real world,........

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