The world is full of doom. Here's how to fight it.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2023, 9:09 a.m.It’s Halloween, which means Monster Madness season. Here are the most iconic horror movie monsters and killers across categories.I think, sometimes, that I got into the business of newspapers because of Virginia O’Hanlon, that little girl who wrote toMy mother quoted Francis Pharcellus Church’s editorial reply to Virginia often, around Christmas, as if it were poetry, or philosophy, as if the words made manifest a world she wanted to live in, and to lean on.
I came to agree with my mom, that faith in the goodness of people is the magic that keeps the world from ruin, that guards trust in institutions and ideals – likein 1897, like science or education or democracy or a free press that strives for accuracy and with ethical standards today – allows us to pursue that dream together.
Frankenstein’s monsters are bombs that kill innocent people, and war itself, which is the most monstrous of all.They are the algorithms that keep us from sharing factual news on apps that spread anger like a disease and lies faster than truths, on social channels that broke the guardrails on our information superhighway ecosystems, and – in the name of information democratization – not only threaten democracies across the world but and make it near impossible to hold unifying conversations.
But do not despair, Virginia. There have always been monsters. Which is why we needed Santa Claus. Which is why we need light. Which is why we need to remember.It may be scary, Virginia. You may think it too frightening to bear. But it is not.I listened this week to Maria Ressa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and an embattled Filipino journalist. She spoke of those monsters, but not in those terms.I can’t help but think it is the fire that holds all these monsters at bay.
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