Ep. 2049 Saifedean Ammous and Tom on COVID Rationality, and Being Independent Academics
The Tom Woods Show
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The Impact of the Internet on the Intellectual Life
Being an intellectual used to be dependent on centralized institutions. Now, because of the internet, you're witnessing an entire new class of intellectual that goes directly to consumer and doesn't need the seal of approval of authority. And now these days, this platform sub stack, which i don't use,. I have my own mailing list that i've had for a long time, but that's where you find a lot of thinkers you really find engaging and interesting, you want to follow. It's all these independent people. So no matter what you try to do to silence people, something pops up to give them another platform. Glen greenwald is doing a lot of his work on overrun rumble,
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