At its heart, democracy is defined by conversation and willingness to give and take. And clearly that's not happening in our political culture today. We have one pop song after another that is tremendously highly optimized. The ones that don't have university degrees speak in ways that are detected by the upper middle class and the graduates. They're now accused of racism and sexism and all the rest of it. But that's kind of an extreme i think. I don't want to just blame the intenete for this, because here's my big fact, which tells you why it wasn't the internet. Between nineteean 68 and 19 88, on american network news, presidential sound bots