02-08-2018, 10:06 AM
(10-12-2016, 11:19 AM)tg63 Wrote: you guys are talking past each other - taramarie is talking about how social media is being used by millies - equivalent to group conversation; mikebert & others are talking about how they prefer to use it, to support in-depth conversation.
whether you like it is irrelevant, millies prefer the drop-in/drop-out format over the in-depth detailed one. it doesn't mean you won't get in-depth conversations, it's just not mandatory/forced.
Facebook is not good for people who, like me, think in paragraphs. Twitter has the extreme limitation of characters. Any discussion of any theory of history, or any other complex idea, can not get suitable expression. It is telling enough that Trump loves Twitter.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
