I think science fiction author Charles Stores put it best in this 2016 blog post[1]: > 2007 is when the human species accidentally invented telepathy (via the

I think science fiction author Charles Stores put it best in this 2016 blog post[1]: > 2007 is when the human species accidentally invented telepathy (via the fusion of twitter, facebook, and other disclosure-induction social media with always-connected handheld internet devices). Telepathy, unfortunately, turns out to not be all about elevated Apollonian abstract intellectualism: it's an emotion amplifier and taps into the most toxic wellsprings of the subconscious. As implemented, it brings out the worst in us. Twitter and Facebook et al are fine-tuned to turn us all into car-crash rubberneckers and public execution spectators. It can be used for good, but more often it drags us down into the dim-witted, outraged weltanschauung of the mob. [1] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/some-american-political-marker.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/some-am...