9 June

Taylor is sane, and mostly sensible. But revealing here the deep belief system of the US, that is really what’s destroying it. Not fascism. The belief that ‘the people’ and their ‘free speech’ run democracies. And the even more delusional belief that social media is the home of free speech. Social media is a war machine on the trust that actually runs societies. Societies don’t run on information, they run on trust. There’s too much information for anybody to understand even a fraction of it. We have to TRUST others to do their bit, while we do our bit. That’s what social media attacks directly. That trust.