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Social Media is Humanity’s Great Big Ugly Brain on a Platter

Social media is the monolithic dumpster fire of human thought and interaction

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6 min readMar 16

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I’m nauseatingly tired of seeing this massive conglomeration of humanity’s thoughts all bloody and piled up on a platter. We call it social media.

Joe Duncan

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I’ve worked in politics for thirteen years and counting. Editor for Sexography: Medium.com/Sexography | The Science of Sex: http://thescienceofsex.substack.com

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