I'm wondering how much of it is just, I talked to Ezra Klein about polarization here in the United States. Maybe this points to a fundamental instability of democracies where technology lets people get messages out so effectively. That's quite pessimistic. But I don't know, it's possible. On the whole item to be quite skeptical of really pessimistic stances about the effect of new media.

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