From Time to Build, by Yuval Levin (ISBN: 9781541699274), p. 135-136.
[This is why I've limited my social media use:]
"...there is no denying that the social media platforms have undercut our social lives. They plainly encourage the vices most dangerous to a free society. They drive us to speak without listening, to approach others confrontationally rather than graciously, to spread conspiracies and rumors, to dismiss and ignore what we would rather not hear, to make the private public, to oversimplify a complex world, to react to one another much too quickly and curtly. They eat away at our capacity for patient toleration, our decorum, our forbearance, our restraint. They leave us open to manipulation - by merchants, algorithms, even real-life Russian agents [and I would add Chinese agents]. They cause us to mistake expression for reflection, affirmation for respect, and reaction for responsibility. They grind down our democratic soul."
[It's more meaningful, more useful, and safer to socialize as much as possible the old way.]
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