Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Forget the term “social media.” We are fussing about society media in which everyone in society has a tall soapbox on which to stand and shout. And many of us don’t like that.

It’s not social media—it is Society Media, in which everyone can now shout as loud as Walter Cronkite used to. Everyone has a soapbox on which to stand and shout.

But those folks are ignorant fill-in-the-blanks. They are spreading misinformation (a generic term that means, “You have the gall to disagree with me.”).

Really smart folks have to deal with it. Really smart folks didn’t fund the publicly funded schools well enough. Really smart folks didn’t teach. This is the result of the choices of really smart folks.

Really smart folks are humming down the parkway in their $150,000 electric vehicle and look over to see a guy whose skin is a shade or two darker than theirs with his companion and four kids (hey, they don’t have enough restraining devices for all those kids) in a bashed 1990 Toyota with the windows rolled down because the air conditioning stopped working ten years ago.

Don’t you wish they would just find their own road? Ick. Welcome to America.

Let’s deal with it and deal with it better than we have been. We can do better. Bemoaning free speech is not endearing. Elevating is.