Dude, if you'd just asked me a more specific question, you could surely have baited me into commenting on this or that culture war issue. Since you asked a gen

Dude, if you'd just asked me a more specific question, you could surely have baited me into commenting on this or that culture war issue. Since you asked a general question, though, I'll simply answer with the generality that I wish we could all make more of an effort to show empathy for each other's problems, and (as I said on the podcast) carefully articulate where we agree and disagree with each other rather than just flinging 140-character excrement. OK, I'll also give you a few links. Here's my Quora answer about what it felt like to be widely attacked on social media, for trying to host a conversation about gender and teenage nerdery that got past platitudes to the roots of people's feelings: https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-for-you-to-be-widely-attacked-online https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-for-you-to-be-widely-... Second, here's my friend Sarah Constantin's blog post about the changing nature of social media, the one I mentioned in the podcast: https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/hiding-in-plain-sight/ https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/hiding-in-plai... Third, here's a recent post called "On Culture War Bubbles," from the blog "Thing of Things": https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/on-culture-war-bubbles/ https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/on-culture-wa... This is much easier said than done, but as Ozy writes in that post, may we all be granted the mental strength to ignore culture war bullshit, until and unless we decide with the rational parts of our brains that it's important or worth responding to.