Media started democratising with Gutenberg, but the curve of democratisation has accelerated exponentially in the last twenty years. It took a lot of work for Thomas Paine to publish Common Sense. It takes almost no work for idiots to post stupid shit on Twitter.
Amen. Gotta earn your voice. You make a great point about ranked feeds and Overton Windows that reminds me of Tim Urban's own Common Sense opus - https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html - and I sincerely hope the silo feeds are dying. Maybe this weekend's thoroughly underwhelming "Justice for J6" turnout is a leading (lagging?!) indicator of same.
Great to see you on here! I'll try to get going myself one of these…years…
Amen. Gotta earn your voice. You make a great point about ranked feeds and Overton Windows that reminds me of Tim Urban's own Common Sense opus - https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html - and I sincerely hope the silo feeds are dying. Maybe this weekend's thoroughly underwhelming "Justice for J6" turnout is a leading (lagging?!) indicator of same.
Great to see you on here! I'll try to get going myself one of these…years…