EGM, Many of us on Substack never go to Twitter for just this reason. I would be surprised if this became a flamer war. The Substack crowd is generally not the "speak then think" crowd. The piece was excellent and correct and I think the comments reflect that your readership agrees with much/most of it. I surely do. But thanks for stating it so eloquently. Will disseminate widely.
EGM, Many of us on Substack never go to Twitter for just this reason. I would be surprised if this became a flamer war. The Substack crowd is generally not the "speak then think" crowd. The piece was excellent and correct and I think the comments reflect that your readership agrees with much/most of it. I surely do. But thanks for stating it so eloquently. Will disseminate widely.
People tend to have deeper thoughts when not limited to 'sound bites' of a particular number of characters. I refuse to go to twitter or any other short format platform. It's like the earphones in Harrison Bergeron that give erratic short bursts of noise to distract someone who thinks. I'm bad enough scrolling Substack and YouTube for long form think pieces, gods forbid I get hooked on snippets...
EGM, Many of us on Substack never go to Twitter for just this reason. I would be surprised if this became a flamer war. The Substack crowd is generally not the "speak then think" crowd. The piece was excellent and correct and I think the comments reflect that your readership agrees with much/most of it. I surely do. But thanks for stating it so eloquently. Will disseminate widely.
People tend to have deeper thoughts when not limited to 'sound bites' of a particular number of characters. I refuse to go to twitter or any other short format platform. It's like the earphones in Harrison Bergeron that give erratic short bursts of noise to distract someone who thinks. I'm bad enough scrolling Substack and YouTube for long form think pieces, gods forbid I get hooked on snippets...