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Splash No. 149 - Who will you be?

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Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser Who Will You Be? I’m obsessed with a very particular type of article going around the web these days — the ones that try and give some sort of guidance on the people we’re going to be after a majority of us are vaccinated and we enter into a phase of relative normalcy. Some use research about people recovering from trauma to offer guides, like the piece from The New York Times entitled “You Can Be a Different Person After the Pandemic” while others, like The Cut’s “What Will Be Cool This Summer?” offers prognostications of the future from a lens so deeply colored by internet culture that it’s utterly incomprehensible. And somehow, this Cut piece feels like the most incredible piece of performance art, representing the unknown combinations of the strange changes that everyone may have gone through in the last year. Never before has such a large amount of the population been so intensely engaged with the internet, a

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