JOHN PODHORETZ: Here’s the danger of social media.
It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that thoughts are not actions.
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Podhoretz ends with a Seinfeld reference, but we’re also deep into the “Monsters from the Id” territory of Forbidden Planet: