Everything feeds into twitter (and influencers will always glom onto something), but American political psychology wouldn’t be so messed up if meteors had hit Twitter’s datacenters a decade ago. It’s peak ‘attention is all that matters’ and ‘polarization feed’ by design.
Maybe being on Twitter is a huge component of the problem…
Is it the disease or just a symptom tho?
Absolutely both.
Everything feeds into twitter (and influencers will always glom onto something), but American political psychology wouldn’t be so messed up if meteors had hit Twitter’s datacenters a decade ago. It’s peak ‘attention is all that matters’ and ‘polarization feed’ by design.