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On Writing of Wrongs
We should understand that because of the technology of the day, we may well be the most recorded and documented generation in history.
“Re-examine all you have been told” wrote Walt Whitman: “Dismiss what insults your soul.”
Ok.
So why do you even bother with politics, anyway? Why bother engaging on social media, or watching the news, or trying to keep up with current events and the news of the day? The notion of “standing athwart history and yelling, STOP” is one that, for the most part, will get you summarily ignored if not washed away in a tidal wave of inevitability, trampled under by the tweeted hooves of stampeding group think. Why not just despair and tune out, cultivate your social media feed to only pleasant things, and let the world go to hell if it so chooses, as long as it doesn’t interrupt your streaming of the latest shenanigans of 90 Day Fiancé: Every Which Way?
What’s the point?
I can only speak for myself. When I first got my Twitter account in October of 2017, it was the first social media of any kind I had ever participated in. I wrote a few months later, in one of my first public pieces:
Understand, at 37 years of age, I had never had any social media account and rather…
