I encourage you to read Andrew Sullivan’s latest at NYMag.com:
The money quote:
It turns out that Mark Zuckerberg’s real achievement will be the collapse of a rational public dialogue and the empowerment of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Our sacred institutions are at risk not only because of the would-be tyrant who sits atop them, but because of the technologies that put him there
Every time we post something, or comment on something, or reply to a comment, we are complicit in sustaining an rogue ecosystem that undermines both our selves and our nation.
Facebook cannot go the way of MySpace fast enough. How do you say that in Russian?
And no, the irony of putting that on Facebook – even “indirectly, i.e. by “lobbing it over the wall from my own website – is not lost on me. I just really have no idea what else to do about it.
We are all hoist on our own petard.