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The Atlantic The colorful and joyful ceremony didn’t feel like a crisis-era bureaucratic procedure. January 21, 2021 American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol.Patrick Semansky / Pool via REUTERS Everyone knows that Joe Biden’s presidential aesthetic is purposefully boring: He’s promising a national nap time after Donald Trump’s violent four-year kegger. “Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire,” the new president said during his inauguration address today, speaking where insurrectionists had recently carried Molotov cocktails. It was natural to expect that Biden’s induction ceremony would make for a few hours as healthfully bland as a Zoom yoga session. (That is, unless you were one of the QAnon followers giddily awaiting the Space Force to intervene in the proceedings.) ....
that can help us rearticulate the future Certain emotions, such as feelings of empathy, gratitude and awe – evolved to help manage social relationships with others and orient humans to a world that is bigger than ourselves – without needing to overtax resource-intensive, rational thought processes. These emotions also help delay the need for instant gratification or reward, being essential to the evaluation of simulated possible futures, and can be geared toward long-term thinking and long-term behaviour change. Transgenerational empathy, for example, can help us make decisions that impact us for the better both today and for generations to come by reducing the immediate impulse of taking the easy way out. This may include having that difficult conversation today rather than letting the underlying discontent fester for days or even decades. But, for all its power, empathy is also fragile, with people finding it difficult to empathise with those who differ from them poli ....
But there’s controversy. Trump’s visit will be capped by fireworks for the first time in a decade, notwithstanding worries that pyrotechnics could ignite wildfires. And Native Americans are planning protests, adding Mount Rushmore to the list of monuments around the world that critics see as commemorating histories of racism, slavery and genocide and reinforcing white supremacy. As I show in my book, “Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment, and Public Memory at American Historical Sites,” many venerated historical sites tell complicated stories. Even Mount Rushmore, which was designed explicitly to evoke national pride, can be a source of anger or shame rather than patriotic feeling. ....