It’s said that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The key is to meld individual pieces into a single organized totality. And in a sign of the times, when talking about social issues, it’s been social media that’s been the glue holding movements together.
However, it can also act as a Pied Piper that leads lemmings over a cliff (to mix metaphors), corrals members into tightly controlled “thought prisons”, and pushes individuals into acts they wouldn’t otherwise do.
There is unprecedented power in the ability to motivate disparate individuals. But that power is easily corrupted.
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