The world is on fire. Why should we care about the Emmys?

Even in a normal year, it takes a lot to get me to care about the Emmy Awards - in fact, I never really care about the Emmys, apart from being happy to see artists I like win, because it's nice for them. But many, many, many more artists whose work I like will not win, or be nominated, and I would hate to think that matters.

This is not a normal year. The West Coast is on fire. A thousand Americans a day die from a disease much of the rest of the industrialized world has been able to keep relatively in check. There is fighting in the streets. A television-personality politician is attempting to stay in office by creating exactly the sort of drama on which television thrives, and we are at war over things we should agree on - like, science and racism - as we sit before our multiple screens and try to process or ignore