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writer olga hazan, the author of weird: the power of being an outsider in an insider world. olga, the new york times reports that the kremlin s pretext for war keeps shifting. quote, drug addled neo-nazis, genocide, american shifting. genocide, american biological weapons factories, birds and reptiles trained to carry pathogens into russia, ukrainian forces bombing their own cities, including theaters sheltering children. what is the dominant narrative that you have seen when you have been watching and listening to russian tv? yeah, it s sort of all of that and more. i still am hearing a lot of talk of ukrainian nazis, which is sort of harkens to world war ii and the pride that a lot of soviets experienced in their defeat over the nazis so they re trying to bring it back. a lot of blaming ukrainians for both their own casualties and
You can be a different person after the pandemic. Just ask this meme.
Updated Apr 12, 2021;
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Has COVID-19 changed your view of the world? Or maybe of yourself . or other people?
At least according to a recent New York Times op-ed from Olga Khazan, adapted from her book “Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World.”
The subhead:
“Our personalities are not set in stone. They are more like sand dunes.”
Twitter ran with the premise, minting a meme that mined film, TV and pop culture for inspiration. What other characters had demonstrated this type of metamorphosis?