Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

IMO, identifying the IDW as fundamentally about growing polarization/SJW influence/etc. narrowly misses the mark: that w/ the mobile web, institutions lost the ability to redirect narratives arbitrarily & started compensating by pandering to "thematic truths" ever more recklessly https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1142970381583704064 …

The nature of the extremism is volatile; tribes, figures, policies will wax & wane. The insanity is here to stay, because there are fewer & fewer shared truth verification protocols — as the overlap between our worlds recedes, we're losing the ability to have conversations at all

This genuinely isn't about a common enemy or a common object-level goal, which is why everyone else seems to care more about the "infighting" than the IDW itself does. It's about the fact that shared reality is spinning out & since the elites can't reel it in, they're chasing it

Pretty sure you mean "liberal" here, not "leftist". Obviously these are often used synonymously but I think they're worth keeping separate.

I'm using "on the left" and "leftist" consistently. "Liberal" means all kinds of things