The internet in its current state turns the world into a sort of purgatory between heaven and hell.
Depending on your politics either heaven is behind us and hell in front of us or hell is behind us and heaven in front of us. What is clear is that we're in between.
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Twitter in particular embodies this purgatorial (?) condition very well.
I'd like to punch through to the other side of twitter somehow. Not go to the pre-twitter state, but somehow post-twitter.
But as the name implies, we have to purge our sins to get through.
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I also think that, paradoxically, the people most invested in these extremes are happiest, or at least most satisfied, when they think hell is in front of them.
IOW, people are much more active on internet media when they're out commiserating with fellow hell-in-a handbasket-ers
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