Example of how the imitative rivalry of social media (team sports) loops back into everyday life. Posts on…

Example of how the imitative rivalry of social media (team sports) loops back into everyday life. Posts on social media platforms about EVs attract a conga line of rabid ICE fans, who pile-on with mockery and derision. They could just do this inside their own groups. 1/4 https://t.co/N3oeapP5SC

But that’s what social media does. They go looking for prey, to feed the team sports. We all see it with Covid too, the pile-on over masks, vaccinations, ventilation etc. Originally politicians developed the ‘pick a fight’ strategy to energise apathetic voters. 2/4

Social media institutionalises it. That’s its revenue model. Social life is not benign. It’s imitation and rivalry, the battle for status. The more we connect the world, the more violent it will become. And the more rigidly resistant to change of any kind. 3/4

Including any action against outright emergencies, like Covid and climate change. Social life/connection doesn’t solve problems. It makes them impossible to solve. /end