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“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s
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Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack
Farrer argues that our collective attention is like a public pasture: It is valuable, it is limited, and it is being depleted. Everyone from advertisers to politicians to newspapers to social media giants wants our attention. The competition is fierce, and it has led to more sensationalism, more outrageous or infuriating content, more alg
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The Straussian Moment
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Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
If my model for cultural change is accurate, one would expect that as white men lose their grip on power, they would increasingly become innovators of culture—and that is exactly what has happened. And not just white men, but the low-status white men (i.e., the young), and the lowest status of those (i.e., the archetypical virgin in his parents’ ba
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