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I agree, but the situation is that the people leading our institutions are self interested, weak, and not omniscient. And that means the Twitter mobs do have p

by onos 4y ago

I agree, but the situation is that the people leading our institutions are self interested, weak, and not omniscient. And that means the Twitter mobs do have power and they often use this destructively. The question then is: Given that our authorities are weak, and the mob is causing us real problems, what should we do about it?

lapcat 4y ago
> Given that our authorities are weak, and the mob is causing us real problems, what should we do about it? Obviously, cancel our authorities. :-)
- onos 4y ago
  That won’t work because we don’t have any infallible subs to replace them with.