I think yall will be okay if you make sure your twitter account isn’t your primary social existence, and you don’t have to play twitter the usual way. Write longform stuff. Retweet old stuff. Be reasonable and conciliatory while your opponents are being unreasonable and nasty, that’s how you actually win.
Remember that the people who’ve fallen in deep and contracted twitter narcissism are actually insane, It’s not an adaptive behavior, they’re there to lose. Every day they’re embarrassing themselves and alienating people and all you have to do is hang around, occasionally point it out, and be the reasonable alternative.
I think yall will be okay if you make sure your twitter account isn’t your primary social existence, and you don’t have to play twitter the usual way. Write longform stuff. Retweet old stuff. Be reasonable and conciliatory while your opponents are being unreasonable and nasty, that’s how you actually win.
Remember that the people who’ve fallen in deep and contracted twitter narcissism are actually insane, It’s not an adaptive behavior, they’re there to lose. Every day they’re embarrassing themselves and alienating people and all you have to do is hang around, occasionally point it out, and be the reasonable alternative.
Yeah, my hypothesis is something like this might work.
(Though I can totally see how it wouldn’t though, and I wouldn’t have thought it a few years ago, so my intuition might just be mistaken)