Long Now Stewart Brand, Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
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Oct 6, 2022 
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Social Media's Radical Shift
- Social media platforms, especially Twitter, brought radical changes around 2014-2015 that intensified cultural attacks and fear.
- This new culture undermines academic life, replacing open debate with fear of cancellation and social death.
Republican Party's Intellectual Rigidity
- The Republican Party has become the "stupid party" because questioning leadership leads to political death.
- This dynamic removes normal debate, making one party intellectually rigid and threatening democracy.
From Cable TV to Social Media Polarization
- Polarization started rising in the late 1990s due to cable TV like Fox News radicalizing the right.
- Social media has since caused fear among people by fragmenting communication and amplifying outrage, worsening polarization.