automation transforming bell curve to power law, hollowing out of middle class as only a minority can leverage their labor to extreme degree
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not that journalists were ever the elite, just as the egyptian scribes. they were the priestly class, weber's "new middle"
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(also lawyers. remember the backwoods lawyer? used to be all you needed was the books and a good head. before credentialism ate the field)
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the internet killed consensus reality. now anyone can trivially disseminate arbitrary text
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but the platforms on which those texts are seen are controlled by the new priests, line programmers, which determine how information flows
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this is what critics of "the facebook algorithm" et al are groping at. the many can create, the few craft the landscape that hosts creation
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it's still early, remains to be seen if we can keep relatively open platforms (like twitter circa 2010; open in the unimpeded sense)
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or if the space narrows, new gatekeepers secure hold. but that will be determined by programmers. (maybe lawmakers). rest along for the ride
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