MINOT — There is not a small dollop of hubris that’s needed to do what I do for a living.

One can hardly wake up in the morning with the belief that people need to hear what you have to say without having a bit of an ego. Though these days, chained as we are to social media, it’s not just people who work in the news media who feel this way. Everyone aspires to be a pundit now, and if they don’t have anything particularly original or interesting to say, they’ll just say and do stupid things to draw an audience of rubberneckers.

Social media has taught us to care very deeply about what others, including strangers, think of us. We’re all the stars of our own little reality shows.

It’s not good, it’s not healthy, but here we are.

But I digress. The social ills driven by social media are a

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