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If you’re feeling a bit down as 2016 draws to a close, you’re not alone and, as it turns out, there’s a reason for that. It’s called “cultural trauma,” and according to Jeffrey Alexander, a sociology professor at Yale University, it occurs “when a collectivity experiences an injury to its idealization of who it is.” Basically, every year has a narrative. Some years simply have more memorable and, shall we say, darker narratives than others. So, when 2016 kicked off in January with the death of David Bowie — a music icon countless fans viewed as untouchable — a narrative about unthinkable and 온라인카지노 unpredictable tragic events occurring was set into motion. “With Prince and David Bowie, I think the real surprise was that they weren’t immortal,” dramaturg Anika Chapin tells CBS News. “There was something about them that was so special and so odd and unusual, that it was like, the fact that they were even capable of dying like human beings was in itself disappointing.” When Bowie’s passing was followed in close succession by more terrible news — the terrorist attack in Brussels, the spread of the Zika virus, the water crisis that turned Flint, Michigan into a disaster area — 2016 evolved into a year many people wished they could simply rewind. “There were a lot of bad things that happened over the course of this...

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(CBS) QUEENS, New York — As far as his parents knew, 15-year-old Will Neibergall was an average teen noodling around on his Mac. Sure, he was on Facebook and Twitter and texting and all the usual social media of today’s teens. And they knew he was musically-inclined, fiddling with digital music programs — enough so that he was in a special arts and science program at McClintock High School in Tempe, Arizona. But when Will told his folks he’d been invited to perform in New York City by the Museum of Modern Art PS1, well … “It blew us away,” said Will’s father, Dave Neibergall. “We had no idea.” Flash forward a few weeks, and there was Will — or “Glass Popcorn,” his Internet art alias — rapping on top of a black Cadillac Escalade amid draq queens, lady body builders and one very bootylicious backup dancer. Glass Popcorn, it turns out, has achieved a following in certain artsy corners of the Web. “His music is so mature for a kid his age,” said Marco Roso, an editor at DIS Magazine, which organized the lineup for the MoMA PS1 performance. DIS editors were aware of Glass Popcorn from his Internet projects but not sure he was really a teen-ager. “We thought he might be an Internet name, not really a person,” said another DIS editor, Nick Scholl. A web...