Of Two Minds

Goliath dies not because collapse occurs, but because scale mistakes itself for life. What survives was never his.

Since the forces seeking to decentralize capital and power are distributed among numerous competing interest groups, the forces of centralization have the upper hand.

Just as nobody foresaw the Cultural Revolution, few if any foresee the emergence of the American equivalent.

Those in charge of narrative control are suffering from the delusion that they’re making sense. Everything is under control until it isn’t.

Nobody believes that “doing more of what’s failed” will actually fail, because to date it’s only made insiders rich.

The net result of these perverse incentives is an Internet that is increasingly toxic and untrustworthy.