Comment by btown

To be very clear: there's a difference between the people shaping/benefiting from/profiting from this system, and those being shaped by it. And, without sharing too much personal info, I am very much one of those being attacked by such a project of performative cruelty, and far too many people I know and love have suffered - and the architects of these projects must not escape accountability.

But I have to believe that a sizable number of people exist out there: the ones who have not carpetbagged on the ragebait economy, but who have been the ones taken down an algorithmic video-feed rabbit hole primed because of the news channel playing at their workplace or words of hatred shared by a community leader... that this person has been taught to fear rather than understand, that that person still has the innate capacity to understand, and that a future can be built on that capacity.