The Quiet Ukrainian Dissent on Telegram - The Atlantic - 0 views
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social media gave the revolution a “spirit for destruction.” The constant push for attention, the purity spiraling in which each activist had to prove himself more loyal to the revolution than any other, the disdain for the compromises of politics or the hard work of organizing—the coalition’s problems all seemed to extend from the culture of highly public platforms.
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It was, Salem wrote, “group-think on steroids—an abomination of a monster with thousands of arms and no brain.”
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Facebook or Twitter is social in the way a large cocktail party is, where you move from one conversation to the next, only half-hearing most of what is said, and where the loudest voice or funniest joke grabs everyone’s attention
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