We live in a culture of magpies
updated 4mo ago
We live in a culture of magpies
- Knowing you live in a magpie culture is worth keeping in mind. If, as Isaiah Berlin once said, “foxes” are people who know many little things, and “hedgehogs” people who know one big thing, then the more recent “magpie” is someone who knows nothing yet manages to maintain a beautiful nest of ideas that aren’t theirs.
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sari added 4mo ago
provocative - on how the only people that are famous on social media are 1) famous to begin with or 2) people unbothered by minor theft of ideas because stealing other people’s content is the only strategy that can reliably build large audiences from scratch on websites with high content demands.