Because then we’d have this?“I don’t know if Americans care that much anymore… They care more about the price at the pump than the price of freedom.” - @juliaioffe just now on @DeadlineWH
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 31, 2022
Sadly, true.
Isn’t everybody on Twitter angry?“an avalanche of irrational people arguing with things I never said” is how @RadioFreeTom (accurately) describes angry people on Twitter
— Cheryl Bolen Smelson (@cherylbolen) January 31, 2022
Or could it be the rest of us are trusting the system to work and have lives to live? The alternative to breaking Twitter is that we could have a national town meeting:
'Cause sure, wasn’t that what the internet was supposed to be for? You know, like television was gonna be educational. Or like churches are where the people of God come together as children of God to act in concord, rather than face each other in anger, recriminations, and vicious gossip. As for “common ground and understanding,” we the people have never found that before. Why do we have to now?What we should do is encourage courageous conversations and dialogue. We should face each other not in anger and recriminations but with a mind to hear, debate and think. Talk. Find common ground and understanding. If we don’t do this soon-America the experiment is lost. (SAN).
— Sophia A. Nelson (@IAmSophiaNelson) February 1, 2022
Twitter seems to encourage looking at even consequential issues in the same terms as the Little-Endians and Big-Endians, only probably not in as much detail and even that rigorously. I think it was less awful when it only allowed half as many characters, but I've never looked at it much.
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