Skunked: In Your Face on FACEbook

I published a newspaper in the early 90s heavily colored by the Democratic Socialist ideas I imbibed bumping around Europe in the late 70s and early 80s, when I published a catalog there. You could articulate those things then. 

 If people disagreed with you, they put a dead skunk in your mailbox and/or a cut-out of one in your yard. I kept the cut-out because I thought a skunk spraying perfume was amusing, but there is nothing amusing about attacks on journalists or the extreme, poke-in-the-eyeball nature of some of the postings on social media. The very configuration of Facebook, Twitter et. al. makes the expression of nuanced ideas impossible. FACEbook is very aptly named because it is so often, so in-your-face. What saw and so admired in Germany, especially, was 10 people sitting around a table discussing a topic, reacting to one another, saying things like I can see how you would say that but...nuanced positions are virtually impossible here.
Our education system may also responsible. Are we teaching students healthy skepticism? Teaching them to effectively pat their heads and rub their stomachs intellectually? To look at scientific proof for global warming. To ponder whether 
immigrants can be both decent, desperate people AND used as cheap labor by business to undermine native populations, which has resulted the drift to the right we see in almost every country? If not, we're all SKUNKED!