How we relate with electronic media and ‘news’ doesn’t just change our minds and brains… it changes the forms of minds and brains we will develop over time… which is why I recommend that we teach each other about the dangers and opportunities that arise from our involvement in electronic and conceptual frameworks….

“Why? Because, as the research shows, merely spectating on people being assholes makes you more of an asshole. When people only make contact on the front lines of a battle, the bellicose nature of their interactions ripple into the collective among people who are only watching. People who observe polarization become more polarized.

Basically, this whole thing is an evolution of old-fashioned COINTELPRO, the FBI practice of infiltrating a group not to spy on it, but to create discord within it. The difference here is that they infiltrated ALL OF AMERICAN POLITICS by pretending to be the most unreasonable and unreachable people on both sides of all of our most contentious issues just to make it seem like both sides are full of people who are unreasonable and unreachable.”