>I'm curious for others' thoughts, because personally, I've never encountered an individual like the one described in this article. I'm one, or probably the cl

>I'm curious for others' thoughts, because personally, I've never encountered an individual like the one described in this article. I'm one, or probably the closest you'll find here, and I'm online-acquainted with many who are much "more this" than me. I generally concur with the author's point that you can't really turn off, but he leaves unanswered the question of "what then is to be done?" I'm convinced that the only way out is through; to be more online, rather than less. It's true that you can't choose to be trad because "trad" implies a lack of choice/reflection. But maybe you can choose to be something better than trad. You see some weird things in the right (wrong?) corners of twitter: an alliance between anime weebs and would-be-Greek-gods bodybuilders, SV programmers bashing on tech, young earth creationists leveraging natural selection as a tool of thought. All of it paradoxical(or is it?), but this doesn't mean it's not useful, or that it can't be fruitful. I see this stuff as "what (the hivemind of) Twitter looks like when it's thinking". We think all sorts of stupid things when trying to solve a problem, but only in hindsight are they stupid---until then, they're avenues that need to be explored.