So point I was actually thinking about was that books are like chariots/tanks in intellectual culture, where blogs are like light cavalry, tweets are like infantry. So rn books are sort of on a down cycle and stream discourses are ascendant. To win idea wars, tweet, don’t book
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In military history there seems to be a pendulum swing between tactics organized around a focal-mass type unit versus a more fluid unit (chariot/elephant —> skirmishers —> phalanx —> light cavalry —> heavy cavalry —> ... tanks —> maneuver). Stock vs flow war? Any writing on this?
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