![]() ![]() Much has been written about over the past week, ever since the site announced that it would shut down under increasing financial pressue due to a $140 million verdict in a case secretly funded by the billionaire Peter Thiel. The reason we were able to have a healthy, respectful dialogue, I suspect, is that we were able to see each others’ faces and judge nuances within our conversation, nuances that don’t necessarily translate to snarky online forums. She took it, and we ended the flight thanking each other for an enjoyable few hours together.Īfterwards, I tried to picture us having a similar conversation online, through mediated commenting forums or underneath an article. I had just read an article in my New Yorker about a robot that teaches kids how to code. I said Jesus wasn’t part of my religion, but that I really liked learning about lots of religions and finding commonalities with people that I don’t generally have the chance meet outside of airplanes.Īt some point, she mentioned she was a teacher. It wasn’t a mean-spirited question she was genuinely curious and felt comfortable asking me. She asked about my relationship with Jesus Christ. I mainly asked questions, she mainly answered. Two of her children had attended seminary. She was a devout Southern Baptist from a rural part of North Carolina. We made some initial chit-chat about disliking airplane rides, then we both settled in for the lengthy flight - she read her Kindle, I thumbed through my backlog of New Yorkers.Īt some point, we began talking. I sat next to a woman who brought an assortment of religious material to read on the plane. I’ll start with the plane ride, which was from San Francisco to Raleigh-Durham. ![]() ![]() The two are related, though it might not seem that way at first. This is a column about ’s demise, but it is also a column about a plane ride I took last Friday. ![]()
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