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In pop culture, every day is Armageddon. But is that healthy for us?

In pop culture, every day is Armageddon. But is that healthy for us?

"Monsters from the id."  That was the warning we got about social media, 65 years ago. The trolling, hatred, divisiveness, violence that now threatens our world was all foretold — hiding in plain sight in a nifty sci-fi film you might still remember. "Forbidden Planet." 1956. Of course, back then, the internet didn't exist. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, TikTok, Clubhouse, would have been scarcely imaginable — even to the imaginative minds behind that old-school space adventure (it still holds up quite well today). But they had great foresight. They grasped just�...

Nightmare, or dreamboat? Andrew Cuomo can't be both. Can he? When — if — Cuomo's political obituary is written, there will be this odd footnote. How is it that a man who has been accused of sexually predatory behavior in the workplace, and who appears to be widely seen by subordinates of both sexes as a bully, has also touched the heartstrings of a large subset of TV viewers? "The Love Gov," he was called. His female following were "Cuomosexuals."  "Sometimes we confuse charm with virtue, and that's not necessarily the case," said Mina Ahn, a professor of social psychology at Bergen ...

Nightmare, or dreamboat? Andrew Cuomo can't be both. Can he? When — if — Cuomo's political obituary is written, there will be this odd footnote. How is it that a man who has been accused of sexually predatory behavior in the workplace, and who appears to be widely seen by subordinates of both sexes as a bully, has also touched the heartstrings of a large subset of TV viewers? "The Love Gov," he was called. His female following were "Cuomosexuals."  "Sometimes we confuse charm with virtue, and that's not necessarily the case," said Mina Ahn, a professor of social psychology at Bergen ...