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Michael Gibson - The Thiel Fellowship, Rationalism, and Stagnation

From the New World

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The Paper Belt Isn't Really on Fire

In LBJ's era the governing institutions Had better control of the information flow. Now we live in the chaos of of the Wild West post-internet and I can't remember Gurri's initial examples. It might be something like was it Dan Rather where he thought he had this piece of paper that proved Bush avoided his time in Vietnam And then it turned out, you know Someone on on the internet was like well if you look at the typeface that typewriter didn't exist in the 70s Right. So now it you know the level of incompetence appears to be higher than it was in the past and I'm not quite sure about that right?

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