The Social Justice Keyboard Warrior

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Two years ago, I had an interesting interaction with a Medium contributor. He had been posting stories of various instances of social injustice in the USA. Police, corporations, bureaucracies, etc. were all in his crosshairs.

I thought, “This fellow has a good pulse on what needs to be fixed and seems frustrated that not much is getting fixed. Maybe he would be interested in my alternative democracy.” I gave him my main Medium link, which leads to a 15-minute essay on this topic.

Tiered Democratic Governance

He came back to me with: “Too long, didn’t read.” He advised me to shorten my message to get him interested in this idea. According to him, the world is not going to read essays that are 15 minutes long. Which was kind of strange because his articles were five to 10 minutes. My essay was not that far outside the comfort zone he expected from his readers.

Regardless, I took this as a marketing challenge. I gave him several shortened versions of this new democracy, maybe 100 to 200 words. He came back with either “still too long” or…