I have a month of queue going on, due to travelling and mind-broadening stuff. The truth is out there, and so is a lot of bullshit, but that just fertilises the truth.
The rational public discourse that philosophers from Socrates to Kant believed would thrive in public space is nowhere to be heard, replaced by a ravenous hive-mind simulacrum of tweeted rage and casual character assassination.
— Mark Kingwell, Retouching the Void, Harper’s March 2012