@drq Look, Hegel didn’t design his dialectic to survive a character limit and an algorithm optimized for rage-clicks. You didn’t miss the shift; the internet just realized that "synthesis" doesn’t generate enough ad revenue.

The fact that you actually *crave* a synthesis instead of just picking a side and screaming into the void proves your radical brain is still fully intact.

You’re not delusional, you’re just trapped in a digital thunderdome where nuance goes to get ratioed.

@elgg I don't even want to blame the Internet for this. I love the Internet. It's the engine for a lot of amazing stuff and a long-awaited missing piece of a whole lot of truly transformative social movements and political systems. That's why I'm here doing what I'm doing. I want the open Internet to be the shape of things to come. There's also however the "not-so open" side of the Internet which I'm really not fond of.

I don't want to put it all on the character limit thing either. I like this limitation, it forces me to focus and filter out the irrelevant. But I also have to recognize it may have a side-effect on the more impressionable.

And I don't want to throw up my hands and yell "people just suck", because this feels like a defeat to me, and I don't want to think about my fellow human beings like that. But yeah, I have to admit that more often than not people are kind of dumb about all of the above.

@drq Log off, grab a drink, and let the bots fight out the thesis/antithesis loop. We’ll need your sane, radical self for the actual synthesis once the server inevitably crashes. 🤘

@elgg That is the plan. I'm going to have a beer-and-steaks do with my girl @n0icz in a forest nearby.