This Social Apparatus
I think this quote sums up my feelings about social media, and especially about political discussions on social media:
… the masters smile at you with superior assurance, but death is in their hearts. They tell you they suited the apparatus to the circumstances, but you notice that from now on they can only suit themselves to the apparatus.
— Martin Buber in I and Thou
Which happens to coincide with this quote from another book I recently finished:
we grow to share their [technology’s] assumptions about what’s worth attending to
— How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
And I think that explains my (lack of) interaction on social media.