At noon on a Tuesday, the capital released a report that should have stopped the country for ten minutes. Instead, it arrived as a stack of alerts, clips, rebuttals, and counterclips, each one asking to be believed before the last had been read.
The public square no longer keeps time together
For most of the century, the nation argued after gathering around the same first draft. Now the first draft is personal, sorted by appetite and suspicion before it reaches the breakfast table. The result is not silence but a constant, disciplined forgetting.