Within a year, he was fired from his job. Forced to choose between a paycheck or an education, he dropped out of school in 2010. His experience of juggling the two commitments was frustrating, sleepless, and ultimately unmanageable.
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He learned, he says, to be intensely self-reliant.Īfter high school, Bonnell enrolled at the University of Nebraska to study music while working full time as a restaurant manager at a nearby casino, mostly at night. His parents moved away when he was a teenager to take care of an aging relative with Alzheimer’s, and he lived with his grandmother until he turned 18. Now 31, he belongs to the first generation for whom it was possible to be raised on videogames-in his case, Japanese role-playing games, whose text-heavy interfaces he credits with making him an adept reader. “I think the path we’re on now sends us to destruction,” he says.īonnell grew up in a conservative Catholic household in the suburbs of Omaha. These realities share no factual basis with each other and thus present no hope of ever establishing consensus. Without that common set of truths, Bonnell says, we enter the dangerous condition of “epistemic polarity.” The idea is that there exists in the United States a variety of decoupled social realities: a reality in which undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers pose an existential threat to the nation and one in which they do not a reality in which vaccines cause autism and one in which they do not a reality in which climate change is a farcical means of social control and one in which it presents a threat to civilization a reality in which a clandestine cabal of Jews subjugates humanity and one in which this is known as a virulent lie.
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