How the "Intellectual Dark Web" Ended with David Fuller
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The Personal Responsibility Guy, Is It?
There's something about the feedback loop of social media that I think is having an unexpected consequence of forcing people to constellate and kind of crystallize around their ideas. Because you put it out there on social media, people criticize it, you end up defending it. So it seems that people crystallize their, their personality and their worldviews, because they're forced to defend it. And this sort of tribalizing aspect comes in on Twitter as well. There is something about, about that feedback loop with social media that seems to just crystallize people into a kind of like, they've assumed their final form in a way and their final form gets more and more kind of reactive and.
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