Mi'sen

Hey you Phds, MDs, JDs, software engineers, and various gifted and privileged people: There's this popular idea that social media has no power to influence people and therefore you shouldn't bother.

This is bollocks. It's a lie you tell yourself in order to justify your complacency. Truth is, there has never been a more powerful way to effect change in the world.

Imagine what we could do together. It starts with a single tweet. When you see injustice, point it out. Retweet somebody else's tweet about injustice or about a solution.

Still skeptical? Imagine what Thomas Paine could have done with twitter.

Ask yourself what you are doing that is more important than working toward justice in the world. Speech is powerful. This dumb website is the most powerful speech platform in the history of the world. Use it.

Speech is powerful & this platform has potential to create massive cohesion (look at use in Libyan revolution), but it requires more than people tweeting about injustice and RTing what they perceive as creating a desirable policy mandate. I don’t know what that ‘more’ is, though