That's just how young people are nowadays. Everyone born after 1995-ish has it hard to avoid being terminally online, or be completely shielded from its discourses.
However, I wouldn't necessarily say people doing active organizing here in Germany are that influenced by twitter discourse. However, lifestylism and hedonism are hugely influential among many self-proclaimed leftists. I imagine America is different since it had a huge recruitment wave for leftist organizations in the mid to late 2010s instead of slowly but steadily shrinking since the early 1980s. Less comrades in their 30s and 40s and later to get to know, turning many orgs into youth-based ones, with specific inner cultures.
That's just how young people are nowadays. Everyone born after 1995-ish has it hard to avoid being terminally online, or be completely shielded from its discourses.
However, I wouldn't necessarily say people doing active organizing here in Germany are that influenced by twitter discourse. However, lifestylism and hedonism are hugely influential among many self-proclaimed leftists. I imagine America is different since it had a huge recruitment wave for leftist organizations in the mid to late 2010s instead of slowly but steadily shrinking since the early 1980s. Less comrades in their 30s and 40s and later to get to know, turning many orgs into youth-based ones, with specific inner cultures.