This is great. I'm curious to see if the additional resources (somewhat) independent of social media, eg Substack, makes the problem better or exacerbates it.
Really interesting that a quasi-monopoly in traditional media helped create consensus thought. People feared that the renegade nature of web 1.0 would break that, but it appears as if the emergence of another quasi-monopoly of social media may have been the cause for this flip
We're doing the largest sociological experiment in human history in real time, I guess we'll see what happens
Have you ever read Martin Gurri's "The Revolt of the Public"? It's basically making a very similar point.
This is great. I'm curious to see if the additional resources (somewhat) independent of social media, eg Substack, makes the problem better or exacerbates it.
Really interesting that a quasi-monopoly in traditional media helped create consensus thought. People feared that the renegade nature of web 1.0 would break that, but it appears as if the emergence of another quasi-monopoly of social media may have been the cause for this flip
We're doing the largest sociological experiment in human history in real time, I guess we'll see what happens
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