The Importance of Character Witnesses in Social Media

Pundits are up against this weird dynamic we have with a highly memetic system in social media where everybody is reacting to the assumption of how other people will react and is mirroring whatever they're seeing. I mean I don't know if it's just terrifying in a way that you say that these are people that are so divorced from what is happening, he says. So rarely are people actually being honest you know expecting a middle-aged play-by-play announcer to be able to navigate that and show the appropriate amount of courage and coordinate.

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