*Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.*
Jonathan Haidt puts the blame on the changes that converted social
media platforms into antisocial media, almost tailor-made to encourage
factional hatred. The article ends with recommendations for reforming
these platforms that he argues could correct the problem.
I wish he didn't use the term "consume" in regard to works of authorship.
That word's implications are all wrong. To consume food means to break it
down into small building blocks and extract what is useful, to build into
other things. That is not what we do with text we read.
The word "absorb" is not very good, but it avoids part of what's bad
about "consume".