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1/4 baked concept:
Something is happening where “regulatory capture” is becoming “society capture”
When society’s attention shifts to a single focal point (online), enforcing rule of law shifts from attempting to control individual actors to attempting to control society itself
Something is happening where “regulatory capture” is becoming “society capture”
When society’s attention shifts to a single focal point (online), enforcing rule of law shifts from attempting to control individual actors to attempting to control society itself
Everything Trump did is now standard issue weaponry, and people still want to act like he is an aberration and not a secular theme.
As a friend of mine said it, “we haven’t even reached the base camp of mount crazy”
As a friend of mine said it, “we haven’t even reached the base camp of mount crazy”
We had the US capitol broken into and our financial markets made into a joke in under 4 weeks, essentially on the back of the YouTube algorithm, high follower twitter accounts, etc. That stuff isn’t the noise, it’s the signal.
I realize America will performatively nail some rednecks and youtubers to the wall, but we cannot actually control the function producing these phenomenon. Even if we wanted to, we can’t. There are real questions regarding how this stuff plays out.
