Scrolling through the rich vomiting of drivel on social media, where everybody is now an expert on…

Scrolling through the rich vomiting of drivel on social media, where everybody is now an expert on everything. And comparing it to the Republic of Letters. Which Stanford has been mapping. These platforms unravel centuries of progress. 1/2 https://t.co/iAgNFy2y5C https://t.co/F9PDch36C4

It's critical to understand how they get away with it. It's mostly not some evil dark forces, though we have those too. It's our shared belief that 'the people' is a thing, some form of agency in the world. That knowledge is the aggregation of opinion. It isn't. 2/2