So @amitkgupta84 heard me claiming that Academe, Journalism, Big Tech and Entertainment are the four areas that have become both the most bizarrely ideologically intolerant *and* constitute our traditional sense-making apparatus.

So he directed me to this graphic from @Crowdpac:

So, for example, academics write about X. Reporters interpret findings on X for readers. Celebrities read these reports of findings on X in newspapers and record a group PSA. Then platforms decide who should be able to see and talk about this X PSA on-line.

Where X is arbitrary.

For example, X could be:

China
Immigration
University Admissions
Vaccines
Wuhan Institute
Section 230
“Equity”
WTO
WHO
Climate
Biological Sex
Tax Policy

Where are the trusted central and neutral sense-making institutions that can counter ideological bias and activists? Nowhere.

I don’t find the Right providing the institutional answers here. I see the non institutional folks like podcasters as all we have. Which is pathetic and insane. Also dangerous, irresponsible and suicidal for an advanced nuclear superpower.