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James Pogue - Nature, Strife, and American Destiny

From the New World

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The Culture War Is a Curatorial Decision, Right?

i don't think you require an algaritm for something like a the culture war to go viral, or something like that. The red meat that goes on on both the left and the right is really this kind of just fundamental part of human nature. And it's actually a story telling technology that we've lost to be descriptive, honest and like measured. A, yes, you could have less information. You could reinvest the curatorial systems with power. That would largely mean taking away power from the tap companies that have seized that initiative. I'd probably vote not to keep twitter around as long as people are making such bad decisions about how they want to see their world portrayed. But

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