This program closes with a most-relevant conclusion re Where We Are Now, IMhO.
fwiw

City Arts and Lectures [npr/ podcast shortly]
Jia Tolentino & Jenna Wortham

On The Media
‘Obituaries’

On The Media examines what role the media play in our grieving and collective mourning process. The show speaks to Terry Parris Jr., the head of a New York City organization called "the City" that is attempting to gather obituaries for every single New Yorker who has died from the coronavirus. The effort, he says, is to turn numbers and data back into individual people. Plus, Janice Hume, author of "Obituaries in American Culture," discusses the role newspapers have traditionally played in recording deaths, and what we can learn from those records over time.

[But more, Shirley best:]

Final ~20-min: an autopsy relating-directly the effects of Wilson's DJT-like clusterfuck: leading to U.S.'s hideous-numbers: thence resulting in,
~quote: The citizens' RECOGNITION that they had been fed pure-Bull-Shit-from the first.
This academician/Historian avers that THIS *mindset led incontrovertibly(!) to --> the 'infection' of Nazism + satelllites, thus --> WW-II.

* Try: the Repo mantra across All Years re 'Big-gummint'--Let Us think For You!. cha. cha. cha.
BUT: in Europe from 1930+ effects of the killing sanctions on Germany/thus dooming Weimar's ever achieving democracy.. via its killing-bankruptcy
(Durable, That: ISTR Bill Patient and a few echoing that non-think-Sentiment. And today it's as infectious as COVID) No?
(Effective too, ain't it?)

The United States of Amnesis ... now hourly erasing as much data as can be managed by, rm-r hda0 (IIRC) in a giant-WH-Script sent to all Agencies.
Nice tying-up any loose-ends, sorta.. innit? Now we can die, Knowingly of the thread-of-malice :-) Problem Solved.