I can’t shake the feeling that we’re witnessing the end of a weird, brief, anomalous social media” era that will be like the Wild West: just 10-15 years long but powerfully shaping the historical imagination. Culture Wars as future frontier mythologies (like cowboys vs Indians)
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The railroads+telegraph were at once unprecedented concentrators of capital and decentralizers of everything else: populations, industries, organizations, supply chains, urban development.
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