Thanks – this explanation ("the attention economy causes aggressive activism") resonates and somehow makes me feel better about the situation. It can be dishea

Thanks – this explanation ("the attention economy causes aggressive activism") resonates and somehow makes me feel better about the situation. It can be disheartening to see friends and movements I agree with turn to aggressive rhetoric and evangelism. But the fact that it's yet another symptom of a broken (social) media environment is a nice reminder that it's not their fault so much as it is an expected result of a bad system. Of course, it's equally sad/disheartening that our modes of societal discourse and decision-making have gotten this bad, but it's a theoretically solvable problem (eg; legislation and a good facebook competitor) and it doesn't involve me feeling bad about people I like.