Periodically, I take long breaks from the firehose of social media, and it’s during these times that I realize, with great poignancy, how little value there is in the constant drumbeat of self-analysis (personal and communal) that has come to dominate public online discourse. As an enthusiastic consumer of all types of media, I have started to feel as though we are drowning in egos, dissolving into a million fragments of artless navel-gazing and opinion. With every ‘think piece’ and ‘long read,’ I feel less informed and more assailed by someone else’s desperate need to be seen and heard. With…
