The Death of Resolution
What short-form video is doing to stories, meaning, and attention
There was plenty of fear to go around in Cold War America. My middle school had a fallout shelter. We watched 8mm films warning us to “Duck” (under our desks) and “Cover” (our ears) if the Russians ever nuked our town of 4,000. In high school I read A Canticle for Leibowitz and The Martian Chronicles. In college we saw The…



