strangers

Prior to the election, we got a lot of stories about the Democratic Party's ground operations, which often involve strangers knocking on doors.

In another, strangers sing together from their cars in a drive-in theater parking lot, flashing their headlights at the glowing screen — their distance and location a reminder of the pandemic era.

This is “Sync.Live,” and while you don’t need to know the science behind it to play it, doing so adds meaning to the experience of wearing a top hat affixed with blinking LED lights and making silly, exaggerated strides at strangers.

On social media, many are discussing the social phenomenon of "taking revenge on society", where individuals act on personal grievances by attacking strangers.

Last month, we travelled to a shopping mall in Shanghai where a man had randomly stabbed strangers to death.