In the last few years, Americans have become obsessed with division. Journalists, pundits, and writers now spend inordinately large amounts of time and energy trying to “bridge the divide” between MAGA hats and sane people, boomers and millennials, millennials and other millennials, et al. They devote entire programs and 10,000-word features to solving this most essential and urgent mystery.
But what if the solution isn’t all that complicated? What if sensationalizing division actually spreads divisiveness more widely throughout the culture? What would happen if we spent more time celebrating the “little ordinary magic of just getting along with people,” as choreographer Zoe Scofield, winner of a Stranger Genius Award, put it in a recent phone interview with me the other day?
