What the Quaker silence practice (amongst others) may counter is the always common human snare of responding not to the world, but to our overlearned internal c

What the Quaker silence practice (amongst others) may counter is the always common human snare of responding not to the world, but to our overlearned internal chatter about it: an always-on autopilot. Twitter has externalised this, so what was previously burned into individual brains is now distributed amongst millions. A social media advance would require some collective equivalent of that silence practice, something creating a bias towards curiously asking questions of the world, rather than parroting jointly practised accusations and answers. I don't know what could do that, because it's an ethic, not merely a procedure. For individuals, getting off things like Twitter is a prerequisite for freedom.