Existential Comics on Twitter: "The "marketplace of ideas" is a great phrase, because just like the real marketplace, which ideas get promoted are based solely on what benefits the people who own the medium of exchange, rather than being based any on merit or competition among equals."

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1. Upstream‏ @UpstreamPodcast 2 Sep 2018
  
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  David Sessions wrote a fantastic piece about thishttps://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual …
  
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1. Algernon D'Ammassa‏Verified account @AlgernonWrites 2 Sep 2018
  
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  Plus, thinking and shopping are not similar activities. (I wrote a column on that problem.)
  
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1. Apparatus of State, 2020‏ @FraudulentWays 2 Sep 2018
  
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  The marketplace of ideas seems like a place to buy food, which one might crave understanding and received nourishment. But in reality it's closer to a clothing store, which you already own a ideological shirt which you want to match a whole outfit of ideas to.
  
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1. Johnny Argent‏ @JohnnyArgent 3 Sep 2018
  
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  Yes, isn't it handy the way ownership of the monopoly of definition when combined with control over the public's sources of "information" helps SO much when it comes to "shaping consensus?" All things work for 'good.' Praise The Lured!
  
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1. Dash Trudeau‏ @DashTrudeau 2 Sep 2018
  
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  The Overton Window, brought to you by Fox
  
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1. Dinesh Dharme‏ @scadza 2 Sep 2018
  
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  But just like ideas, the marketplace would itself evolve. Do you expect everything to be perfect for the first time.
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1. Alegre Foraster‏ @alegreforaster 2 Sep 2018
  
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  Yeah... But that has a limit. Businesses don't make money from phantasies. At least - not normally.
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1. Giuliano‏ @JulianSales2 2 Sep 2018
  
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  Ideas cost nothing to give away, creating a market place creates the incentive to withhold those ideas. Purely in order to create need.
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