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Political Discussion and Debates in the Modern Attention-Defecient age

You aren't saying anything all too much new if you say that "Social Media is frying people's dopamine receptors". It has been long documented and we have truly experienced first-hand the effects of this new age of prevalent short-form content which is further optimized to retain the user as much as they can. There is something truly dystopian about this "optimization" that I wish to delve into first as a tangent before going into the titular topic.  There is a certain hopelessness associated with the act of reducing human beings into this quantifiable amalgamated entity - there are multiple courses, gurus, influencers online who will teach you how to "optimize" your content; when translated into English, meaning, how can you as a "creator" make your content in a way that you are sure to hold the viewer's interest up until the end of your reel/tiktok/youtube video. One might ponder, well, how does it differ at all from let's say Ge...