Will Bench
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A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.
“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.”
Denial is so much easier than looking inward, or backward, or forward; so much easier than change. But denial needs narratives, cover stories, and that is what conspiracy culture is providing.
That is the opposite of the discourse that dominates today, the one that is so very hard on people and far too soft on structures.
First the internet reduced the marginal cost of distributing content to zero. Now AI is reducing the marginal cost of producing content to zero.