Thursday, November 30, 2017

Why we are all to blame for the nightmare of online debate

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/29/vortex-online-political-debate-arguments-trump-brexit

"I have come to think of it as the Vortex: the psychological whirlpool into which I can feel myself getting sucked almost every time I open Twitter, or Facebook, or any of the websites devoted to chronicling the mendacity and stupidity of the world – by which I mainly mean politics – in 2017