Twitter and other social media apps are going to be disaggregated in ways where there's always gonna be people on the frontier. And then those will become the main settlements and then people will move on kind of like you were talking about with ants and termites. What we don't actually recognize is that we're in a moment where people are powerful, not unhappy with the way they are looking for things to do. The new media or the dominant media gets blamed for everything. But social media is not that bad. It does it in franchises many more people, more people can speak with more freedom in more context and get hurt. Some of that's bad. I disagree with a lot of
Nick Gillespie is the host of the Reason Interview and an editor at large at Reason. Nick is one of the most interesting libertarian thinkers in America, and has been described by the New York Times as being to libertarianism “what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit". Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Is libertarianism dead?
- Saying what you think
- The case for rational optimism
- Labels and empathy
- President Nixon, the Great Reshuffle, Bitcoin
- Bureaucracy and responsiveness
- The rapidly changing world
- Prohibition and legalisation
- Why America does not have enough immigration
- The enfranchising power of social media
- Obscenity and moral panics
- Empathy with the dispossessed
- And MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America; by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
- The Rational Optimist; by Matt Ridley
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; by Douglas Adams
- The Population Bomb; by Paul Ehrlich
- The Beginning of Infinity; by David Deutsch
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy; by Joseph Schumpeter
- The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism; by Howard Bloom
- One Summer: America, 1927; by Bill Bryson
- The War on Alcohol; by Liza McGirr
- Immigration and Freedom; by Chandran Kukathas
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy; by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
- What It Means to be a Libertarian: a Personal Interpretation; by Charles Murray
- Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society; by Tipper Gore
- Ulysses; by James Joyce
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It; by Will Storr
- Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine; by Derren Brown