The real question is why twitter has been so damaging to the mental equipoise & self-esteem of guys like Bret Stephens and David Brooks, who have happily sailed over rough polemical waters for most of their lives. Why does twitter get under their nerves so much?
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The kids today don't understand "Stayin' Alive"
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See, I think this is another example about how too doctrinaire a Marxism can actually blind you to political realities. Like: What's going on on Twitter is Leveling, which is fundamentally political, and fundamentally ABOUT class-struggle, and this guy doesnt get that.
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It's worth watching Ireland to see how influential Twitter can be. Here you get a reasonably good cross-section of the mood of the electorate, and scandals spread via trends into every office and home in the country. It's been vital for the big issues of the last five years or so
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Reasonably interesting argument, so long as you skip the last paragraph.
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Have they though? The comments on Brooks's column (on the NYT site) suggest that the readership is largely on-board with him.
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"people who willingly pay hundreds of dollars per year for NYT subscriptions" is a self-selecting group that tends to quickly remove those who don't like the NYT anymore
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My crowd pimps me, at worst, as a worthy opponent. Not Twitter. Twits don't even think they're smart & knowledgeable. They think I'm stupid & ignorant. And prove it. Realtime all the time. That cuts my pride & price & could cost me my undeserved jobs & ... everything. ~ VSP
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That's kind of his point. I like Chomsky, but the piece is saying that the perception of Twitter as be-all-end-all is having an effect that even the likes of Chomsky didn't.
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