Why arguing on Twitter is so impossible - Vox
▻http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5899621/why-arguing-on-twitter-is-so-impossible
One of the most exhausting thing about arguing about politics and ethics and society on a regular basis is that disagreements often boil down to meta-disagreements, disagreements about what even counts as a valid argument for the purpose of the discussion at hand. And those meta-disagreements are rarely articulated, which makes resolving them, or arguing about the first-order issue at hand in spite of them, really really difficult. This Peli Grietzer post gets at this feeling extremely well. He’s talking about Twitter specifically, but I think the problem is more general:
▻http://secondbalcony.tumblr.com/post/91774566443/weaponized-moods-or-twitter-as-a-nightmare-we