The evolution (or devolution) of blogging to 280 characters (Twitter Maximum) has had positive and negative impacts on wisdom.
It does create a mental talent for pruning excess verbiage, which was always my bane in high school and college. My dad, "Doctor I" had a habit of crossing out the word "that" in books and articles, as if to keep a trove of "that" pages he would have saved being printed, like trees saved by recycling tons.
It also gives wind to oversimplification, and "black and white" (almost literally, but not literally) opinions.
Intolerance is increasingly treated as a virtue, both on the "left" and on the "right". I can tolerate intolerance for things that are truly black and white, like torture of children and extinction of species and destruction (e.g. via mining) of habitat. I cannot tolerate the idea of "endangered species platter" in restaurant tourism. But I have to consider the domestication of wild species (Tiger King is nearly intolerable, but might have preserved the very last tiger DNA in a future paradigm) as a possible "seed bank", and realize it's funded by Chinese restaurant tourism (watched "Wet Markets" documentary on VICE over the weekend).\
