
Tech, Cults & the Cryptoqueen, Jamie Bartlett
Rebel Wisdom
What Is the Most Aggravating Thing?
I spent a lot of time with tommy robinson, the leader of the english defence league. He became obsessed with islam because he was able to cherry pick new stories about islam 24 hours a day. It's just this sort of breakdown of the control over information that we have. And it's a lot easier in a world of total information where you just have access to everything at all times. When yo read a newspaper before, at least you had a balanced media diet about lots of other things going on in the world. That has been destroyed by the internet. But that's not quite the same as raced to the bottom in a race at the bottom of the brain stem.
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