> spending your days arguing with strangers But that isn't what is happening now. Instead of interacting so much with strangers, modern social media platforms

> spending your days arguing with strangers But that isn't what is happening now. Instead of interacting so much with strangers, modern social media platforms have increasingly put people in bubbles where they interact mainly with those who share the same views. Yes, people express outrage at those they perceive as outsiders, but they are not actually talking so much to those outsiders, who are off in their own communities. Instead, they are building community with like-minded people through shared rituals. Some amount of people will take the outrage and attempt to directly impact the lives of the target of that outrage, but those are (even when they look like mobs) still just a minority of people.