social media is for bad ideas what early cities were for contagious diseases. interesting parallel https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/20/social-media-threat-people-survived-disease-we-can-handle-twitter-glenn-reynolds-column/879185001/ …
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I imagine social media will probably turn out to be just like other vices such as alcohol: generally fun for most, harmful for a minority, devastating to a smaller group, esp. with high anxiety or other mental health problems
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Social media is mechanized Protestantism. (Which makes your diagnosis fair enough from a Cavalier perspective.)
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Mechanised Protestantism, wasn't that the spinning jenny? Digitised, surely?
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Replying to @fritztegulariu @edwest
So, Nano-Transistorized Mechano-Puritanism?
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... Getting steadily easier to see why the Cavaliers might have a problem with it.
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