What the heck happened in 2012? (theintrinsicperspective.com)

At a personal level, I remember someone in graduate school, which I entered in 2010, confessing to me after a few beers that the rise in politicalization among our peers around 2012-2013 (as my fellow grad students either suddenly bought into wokeness and started using its reasoning and language or staked out controversial or secretively resistant anti-woke positions) reminded him of “the invasion of the body-snatchers.” His theory was that the body-snatching was happening through their phones. My friend would not be surprised to learn that the major political reorientation of the decade sprung into existence the second everyone got smartphones.

Fascinating correlations…