nuance and complexity are self-censoring. any position that doesn't losslessly compress into a chant or a rally cry or 240 characters is effectively censored b

nuance and complexity are self-censoring. any position that doesn't losslessly compress into a chant or a rally cry or 240 characters is effectively censored by its own unfitness for the infrastructure of mass propagation. like the demotivation poster quip, none of us is as dumb as all of us. it does not matter that there is structural promotion of epistemic shallowness on both/all sides of hot-button issues, because there is, and it's getting worse as the noise floor steadily rises. swing a dead cat and hit a dozen informal fallacies in all directions. what does matter is that, in most cases, only one side is openly indulging and channeling our most degenerate impulses of cruel-mindedness and domination. eventually the other side may be forced to do the same.