re: How did the world get the way it is today?

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massive social divisions

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Social media and the impulse for so many people to share their every last thought on everything.

The hashtag has supplanted true activism by letting people claim to be part of a cause through tweeting rather than getting off their asses and actually doing something.

So now people can hide behind their keyboards and twitter handles and still let everyone know how angry they are about something, when in actuality most of them aren't mad enough to really get out and do anything about it.