...the punchline is that no matter how clear, how careful, how poetic the message is written -- we all will still just skim the fine print. Hell, I do it. Do it all the time. Twitter is successful because most of us get as far as the headline. So... why not write only in headlines?

That's a mistake. Writing only mono-logs is the equal and opposite mistake. Conversations happen when you talk and listen. Maybe not in equal parts. Sometimes you listen more than you talk. Sometimes you talk more than you listen. Do you listen to your own words as you say them? Catch the spokenmis word? The licked tetter?

I live in the Constantinople of the British empire, the US of A. My government is facilitating a genocide. Our private industries build the weapons that slaughter children families communities. Our publicly traded stock market does better the more blood is spilled. I hate it here. The people around me are too overworked, too sleep deprived, too hope-shattered, too cynical, too scared to do anything. I WILL NOT LEAVE. I will do everything in my power to bend history away from the slaughter. I WILL BE SO GODDAMN PATIENT AND CARING AND CAREFUL AND LOVING. And I will make sure people know. I WILL HELP THEM UNDERSTAND. I WILL DRAG THIS COUNTRY, KICKING AND SCREAMING, INTO THE 21st CENTURY

and that's enough monologing