"My argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy." —Joan Westenberg

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/