Here’s a little exercise adapted from “You Really Need to Quit Twitter” in The Atlantic:
Step 1: Take the Simone Weil essay “On the Abolition of All Political Parties” and replace the word “parties” with something that maybe shouldn’t exist, like social media:
The mere fact that social media exists today is not in itself sufficient a reason for us to preserve it. The only legitimate reason for preserving anything is its goodness. The evils of social media are all too evident; therefore, the problem that should be examined is this: Does it contain enough good to compensate for its evils and make its preservation desirable?
Step 2: (Oh well I still have my Twitter account).