Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology
From the New World
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Is There a Relationship Between Many to Many Communications and Cultishness?
I think this is a big kind of open question with the era that we're living in now. There are decades where nothing happens, and then people who get into power have honest like significant amount of influence. So I mean it's really hard to appreciate how new that that is. Maybe the influencer as a kind of structure of this media environment is really interesting. What it rewards is loyalty,. The economic returns to providing something that small number of people really want are now substantially greater than reaching the money.
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