Right. And the chattering classes spend such a disproportionate amount of time on Twitter (like some of the journo and other intellection/writerly types spend a

Right. And the chattering classes spend such a disproportionate amount of time on Twitter (like some of the journo and other intellection/writerly types spend all day on it) that the things they tend to say and think about it are typically very much exaggerative and divorced from reality.