If you feel the need to read something intelligent, try Enlightenment 2.0 by Joseph Heath. He’s a U of T philosophy prof who writes and thinks a lot about political philosophy. I have mentioned this work before but am re-reading it again and the relevance to today's political discourse could not be more relevant.
If you’ve ever wondered how people can be suckered in by cults of various kinds, especially political ones, it will do you good to read this. Very intriguing insights that would never have occurred to me on my own. My analysis usually stops at, “They’re morons,” which is not very instructive. As he points out, and many others have before, cooperating in large numbers goes against our human evolutionary make-up, so we have to use reason to construct large societies with institutions that take the place of our faulty "gut feel", and that’s hard work. Tearing down institutions willy-nilly is a mistake. One the old sayings he bring up is that before you take down a fence, it's best to figure out why it was built.
It’s not a light read and it's not short, but it's worth it. And as I am reading it, I think that social media is exactly the wrong place (obvious by now) to have useful conversations. The way it is constructed it actually works to tear down the very institutions that keep us from the void. We should fix that. He makes the point that societies don’t fall down into law and order, they fall down into barbarism by default, unless deliberate action is taken.