But in 2017, it felt as if an increasingly grotesque subspecies of infantile beast had escaped the screen and invaded our real lives. Suddenly, we found ourselves wondering: Does the world even feel real to powerful men? How else do two world leaders with nuclear weapons capable of murdering millions trade juvenile insults on Twitter like kids battling over a video game? What else makes it seem tempting to break a window in a hotel tower and point one of forty-three assault weapons at a crowd below, as Stephen Paddock did in Las Vegas in October 2017, killing fifty-eight people before turning
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