It would not be unreasonable to posit that Twitter helped create many of the crazy people that now exist. In fact, social media created the need for a whole new lexicon, because this kind of crazy “seems sane” to an entire group of people. Yesteryear’s “crazy” folks were rightly seen and heard by everyone else as out of their minds insane, and that kind of crazy was usually accompanied by an inability to function as a normal member of society. From where I sit, this new “social media crazy” is much more dangerous. Sure, you can pass someone like this in the street, or even have a casual conversation with them, and never know they think this way, but they spend their time, energy, and resources trying to destroy everything decent and remove the actually sane people from society.

We need to return to the days where it was not just a right, but an obligation, to refuse to suffer fools.