Opinion | The War You Can Scroll On By

Everyone should read this. The more "online" you are, the more you should read it. My feelings toward this are complicated; I'll put them in a thread here. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

"Through the phone in my pocket, I am closer to the country’s destruction than any Iranian exile in history has ever been. And I have never felt further from it." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

As profound a take on The World We Live In that I've read lately. Beautifully written and it makes one think about the effect of social media. Achieving/maintaining relevance is the new reality. A jumbled, disconnected life. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

The War You Can Scroll On By www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

“More than 20 years ago, Susan Sontag argued that the problem with war on television was never that viewers stopped caring. It was that the medium was organized to keep attention moving, to make every image replaceable by the next.” Nick Mafi on war and scrolling.

The War You Can Scroll On By #csulbsoc www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

The War You Can Scroll On By www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o... this is a stop-you-in-your-tracks read #Iran

Scrolling on by: War, social media and erasure www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

"I watched Americans fill the streets over the Gaza war and I understood: To many, a sense of morality was clear. Iran doesn’t offer that...Americans learned Iran the way they learned most countries they would later bomb, in shorthand." - Nick Mafi www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...