37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke
The Portal
Is Facebook the New Railroad?
I wanted to go beyond that into the idea that this entire world that i'm charting in the book is itself a reductio ad absurdum. If we wanted to build a good informational ecosystem, we would not have ended up anywhere near where we are right now. I see an informational crisis that is essentially on par with the climate crisis or the opiate crisis, or the city for structure crisis. We can't get at as long as therare having ridiculous conversations about what even is factually true. It's very hard to tell them you need vastly more money which is true because if you're going to get better behavior, you have to pay people to hold them to the
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