Your Right To Destroy People: No One’s Trying To Take Away Your Social Media Right, But ….

You are god-like.

You have the power to take someone (their words/actions — in context and without) and offer them to the angry alter of the world. You have the power to define someone within the small, pixel space of an iPhone, reduce their deeds (good or bad), their history, their family, their volunteerism, their triumphs and mistakes … reduce everything about them to a singular moment, a public character count, thumb clicks on a keyboard.

This expansive (and sometimes crushing) reductionism … it is your god-like power.

And if you’re a vengeful god, your hope is that other vengeful gods will see your tiny frame within in their own tiny frame, and they too will grow angry. And they too will follow the cycle … define the “object” within the small, pixel space of an iPhone, reduce “its” deeds, “its” history, “its” family, etc. All this, from your heroic and ahhh so satisfying hope … a hope to hold everyone accountable without pause, without dialogue, without any discernment between pure evil and errors made by the purely good.

Don’t worry. I’m not trying to take away your right to destroy anyone. You now have that right. You can apply this right without conviction, though one would hope you’re patrolling only for…