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I'm stunned at the gullibility of people in how taken we are with public appearances. e.g. spats b/w

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People who are this illiterate in network effects should not throw stones about ignorance and stubbornness, lest they ricochet...

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It's a simple courtier's strategy, magnified thousandfold on social media - better to be the subject of scandal than to be ignored.