What is happening now in the US (the soft power of Silicon Valley teaming up with the hard power of President Trump) does not herald a new world order on its own. It’s the West following suit into a new fragmented world order that the rest of the world has already been moving towards years before by architecting its infrastructure around cultural a

the question of what’s good and evil isn’t a moral one anymore, nor a public discourse. It’s a question of power and what team you're on.

The famous “end of history” idea articulated by political scientist Francis Fukuyama described how the end of the Soviet Union brought an end to the struggle for political ideas.

The censorship and state control of media the West once alarmingly criticized China and other countries for, is now strikingly similar to their own strategy but with different values - China’s internet being more Orwellian and the West’s being more Huxleyian.

Going dark is one strategy of the savvy and privileged.

It’s not just a vibe shift. Being “good” simply doesn't cut through the noise as once it did in today’s media.

As these online spaces become the predominant place where younger generations get their media, the big tent information of the clearnet, of mass media, of consensus middle gets hollowed out.

people are increasingly not interested in speaking to one another unless they already know they have a strong sense of commonality or they can access something totally new.

to the Dark Forest of the internet; off mainline socials where their speech and behavior was broadcast to anyone and into small niche communities on invite-only forums, p2p networks, and group chats.