Thread: Reading The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium by @mgurri -->https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KQMVOPM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_gDqqBbB3HY4GB …
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"Public discussion was limited to a very few topics of interest to the articulate elites."pic.twitter.com/Ue7ZMlXMNo
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"The docile mass audience, so easily persuaded by advertisers and politicians, had been a monopolist's fantasy which disintegrated at first contact with alternatives."pic.twitter.com/NZZj90pQx8
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"Two modes of being, old and new, hierarchical and networked, industrial and egalitarian, top down and bottom up, seem unable to achieve a resolution, a victory of any sort."pic.twitter.com/7YQCEeQwib
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"Persons in authority have had to jump through hoops of fire to achieve their lofty posts -- and feel disinclined to pay attention to anyone who has not."pic.twitter.com/v4G47eIMDd
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You're back! This is why writing bores me and I mourn the great public intellectuals as they pass on. No one is properly incentivized to replace these marvelous great men (and Mary Beard), because a beautiful sentence is whacked about by those who are annoyed to read it.
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Good to remember that info is still just as scarce, or more so, in some other countries. And the asymmetry with our open flow of info suits their leaders.
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Only if valued/wanted, in the sense authoritative=influential. Which is true of any scarce good. Hence, their [market] price.
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belay request- hadn't seen earlier teeter
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This is great. I couldn’t help but notice you don’t have a highlighter marker. I would share mine if you need.pic.twitter.com/hEvRNo1XMl
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Scarcity and value in the written word is of old complaint (Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621 quoting from Pliny's Letters, 61-113 AD )pic.twitter.com/994TRxnrGM
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Saluti please find the unroll here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1015668133472813056.html … See you soon.
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“They had no access to what was missing.”
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Downloaded...hope to read on way to Munich
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Truth remains scarce, but distribution of (dis)information is ubiquitous... It's an interesting wrinkle vs what the early internet idealists must have envisioned. Suspect is what the church freaked about when the press was invented and education more ubiquitous
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"People want an authority to tell them how to value things. But they chose this authority not based on facts or results. They chose it because it seems authoritative and familiar" - Michael Lewis, Big Short.
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this is why we need a mechanism to evaluate sources of content. cc: @proofmedia_io
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