Repeating an earlier rant-
Anyhow, here’s something that’s been bothering me about political debate here in the age of Twitter and social media. So much of debate is reduced to meme form. It dumbs down ideas to reduce ideas to memes. I won’t proclaim to be a great intellectual but a lot of my ideology was shaped by reading, listening to people I respected, and then forming my own opinion. Memes dumb down our ideas and beliefs to crude images with words that aren’t our own. I’m not saying no one should ever use memes to argue but I am seeing it disturbs me that many people see them as a form of debate.