That was the paradox of the new media. It was meant to take us further, into the future. Instead it had brought back the past: misogyny we had thought conquered; regimes thought laid to rest. The very form of social media scrambles time, place, proportion: terror attacks sit next to cat videos, the latest jokes surface next to old family photos. And the result was a sort of flattening, as if past and present were losing their relative perspectives.
