It seems like half of the new media companies launched in the past few months has decided on a logo that looks like a badly fissured anus. Don't know if it's on purpose, or people just trend-chasing. People turned Saturn Devouring His Son into Corporate Memphis. I'm now waiting for Corporate Memphis Goatse.
Imho the cultural pendulum turned over. It swings to the right now. Whatever left does right now is largely irrelevant. They are losers, uncool, old establishment.
The fact that they are still in charge in many places and performing poorly not going to help.
But its not just about the left. Old "right" is obsolete too. The future is bright and fast. The AI, crypto, mass robot in labour force. This is real seismic shift and whoever looks backwards at the past will be left behind
I never heard the term 'remote viewing' so I googled it and came across a CIA document about RV research from 2000! What is more, the research was done by SRI International, a fascinating Silicon Valley research institute.
George Gilder lost a lot of his credibility--a way lot more than he deserved to lose--with some stock market recommendations he made leading into the 2000-01 dot-com stock market bubble burst, most notably MCI WorldCom and Global Crossing. But he was proved right in the long term.
What I am seeing is that while the Left is being rigidly policed by the Omnicause, the Right is desperately in need of some housekeepers willing to excommunicate those beyond the pale and keep up the moral and intellectual hygiene. William F. Buckley did an admirable job of this during his lifetime, most notably with the Birchers but also with the likes of David Duke.
The water's fine in the big right-of-center pool, but we need to prevent people from having accidents in the pool--and the MSM throwing in Baby Ruth bars and calling it yet another turd in the right-wing pool.
The Older Liberal Center seems to be composed mostly of people who jail-broke the Omnicause. Others will follow and may stake out different camps, but I don't think it will be a stampede for the doors. There's too much cause identity still in the Omnicause.
I don't think it's possible to write about new center-left to left media without the G-word, Gaza. Sometimes I think it's overplayed (and I am personally in a pro-Israel media bubble with podcasts I listen to and main newspaper I read), but it has allowed the left to break with the Democratic Party brand and the center in a way that they haven't been able to do on any other issues for a while, and since pro-Palestine stuff is often subject to bans etc and also allows them to pivot themselves against the "mainstream media" as the chief villain similar to how the right wing media apparatus has done this for ages. It is a pattern going back to at least the Iraq War that there has only really been a left "break" from blue "blob" media when it goes along with what the left and especially among young people sees to be a disaster, ie the NYTimes and such covering WMD claims incredulously, this led to rise of original 9/11 Truth movement and conspiracy media which was originally much more left-coded, then the 2009 financial crisis birthed media outlets trying to look at the root causes in a systemic light (Jacobin, even Vox could be seen as a sort of thing that arose basically entirely to explain exactly why Obama couldn't do this that or the other thing on banking and health). More darkly, I think the frisson and edginess of pushing racist etc issues that attracts some to elements of the more unfortunate right also drives at least some of the anti-Zionism of the new left media. "At last, here is a left that can upset blue grand/parents and symbolic stand-ins/establishment types as much as the MAGA/populist right!" One issue that appears to be much worse on the left is how there are few overlapping audience networks between BreadTube type people, podcasts, websites, to form an ecosystem that includes text/twitch streaming/video/podcasts as a daily consumer lifestyle; I get the sense the average viewer of say Hasan Piker's show doesn't read any theoretical or text-based stuff coming from the same viewpoint
One of the biggest power moves you can make is aggressively discussing something that could be major in the future but is currently extremely boring; the reason the 2008 financial crisis came out of nowhere as a mainstream news story wasn't because the likes of the WSJ and FT didn't have articles on why subprime mortgage backed securities and CDO squared and the like were dubious as early as 2006 semi-regularly but because it would appear nowhere in the field of the zeitgeisty media consumer as seen as arcane. The issue of possible risks in private credit and Trump extending 401ks to more private credit probably one of the bigger stories this year as a win for the people who bankrolled Trump's victory but has gotten little play vs more sexy (literally, was a week or two off from Sydney Sweeney) stories even in serious normal media like NYTimes
Gaza and the more controversial areas of trans politics (medical treatment of minors, transwomen in women's sports) seem to be the primary things jailbreaking the Omnicause.
But once you have a few escapees getting away scot-free, I think we're starting to see more "question everything" on the Left.
Still, though, the ideological policing on the Left is much more aggressive than that on the Right. And we're seeing a lot more doubling-down on the Omnicause by most of those who remain.
Not trying to argue with anyone in this thread, everyone eloquently advocated a viewpoint in which reasonable people may or not agree but IMO the “G” or “T” discussion has one major difference. Gaza (read: Palestine) is and has been a geopolitical tinderbox for millennia and no sound bite is going to fix anything. On the other hand, if Ds had the clarity of mind to just concede that males are stronger than females it would go so far on repairing their image. Put simply, if they’re going to lie about that simple fact, what else are they willing to lie about…here lies the median voter’s mistrust of the Democratic Party
I remember Gilder from the late nineties being a prophet for broadband. He wrote a book called Telecosm that was directionally correct, but he was also hyping broadband companies that all went bankrupt after the dot com bust. I had no idea about his previous work.
I checked his Wikipedia and he is or used to be an advocate for intelligent design. wtf.
My first main ChatGPT hallucination was it claiming Gilder's book Wealth and Poverty originated the TV/recording phrase "time shifting" when it was the CEO of Sony who did that, it isn't entirely a bad guess given Gilder's Life After Television book and other later Gilder writings are obsessed with TV futurism
It seems like half of the new media companies launched in the past few months has decided on a logo that looks like a badly fissured anus. Don't know if it's on purpose, or people just trend-chasing. People turned Saturn Devouring His Son into Corporate Memphis. I'm now waiting for Corporate Memphis Goatse.
Imho the cultural pendulum turned over. It swings to the right now. Whatever left does right now is largely irrelevant. They are losers, uncool, old establishment.
The fact that they are still in charge in many places and performing poorly not going to help.
But its not just about the left. Old "right" is obsolete too. The future is bright and fast. The AI, crypto, mass robot in labour force. This is real seismic shift and whoever looks backwards at the past will be left behind
Agree with parts of this
Sharp observations as always… Hey did you ever do the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep book club?
No, but I should bring the book club back. It's just so much stuff
I never heard the term 'remote viewing' so I googled it and came across a CIA document about RV research from 2000! What is more, the research was done by SRI International, a fascinating Silicon Valley research institute.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002200070001-0.pdf
I am trying to get Ed Dames to come on my stream!
George Gilder lost a lot of his credibility--a way lot more than he deserved to lose--with some stock market recommendations he made leading into the 2000-01 dot-com stock market bubble burst, most notably MCI WorldCom and Global Crossing. But he was proved right in the long term.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/04/22/220914/the-state-of-the-global-telecosm/
I feel like he’s worth an article
The Grift Doubling Down is alarmingly big, although not so much here on the 'Stack.
It’s a mess of people
What I am seeing is that while the Left is being rigidly policed by the Omnicause, the Right is desperately in need of some housekeepers willing to excommunicate those beyond the pale and keep up the moral and intellectual hygiene. William F. Buckley did an admirable job of this during his lifetime, most notably with the Birchers but also with the likes of David Duke.
The water's fine in the big right-of-center pool, but we need to prevent people from having accidents in the pool--and the MSM throwing in Baby Ruth bars and calling it yet another turd in the right-wing pool.
For the kids who don't get the Baby Ruth reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxiXGr9nFM
The Older Liberal Center seems to be composed mostly of people who jail-broke the Omnicause. Others will follow and may stake out different camps, but I don't think it will be a stampede for the doors. There's too much cause identity still in the Omnicause.
I don't think it's possible to write about new center-left to left media without the G-word, Gaza. Sometimes I think it's overplayed (and I am personally in a pro-Israel media bubble with podcasts I listen to and main newspaper I read), but it has allowed the left to break with the Democratic Party brand and the center in a way that they haven't been able to do on any other issues for a while, and since pro-Palestine stuff is often subject to bans etc and also allows them to pivot themselves against the "mainstream media" as the chief villain similar to how the right wing media apparatus has done this for ages. It is a pattern going back to at least the Iraq War that there has only really been a left "break" from blue "blob" media when it goes along with what the left and especially among young people sees to be a disaster, ie the NYTimes and such covering WMD claims incredulously, this led to rise of original 9/11 Truth movement and conspiracy media which was originally much more left-coded, then the 2009 financial crisis birthed media outlets trying to look at the root causes in a systemic light (Jacobin, even Vox could be seen as a sort of thing that arose basically entirely to explain exactly why Obama couldn't do this that or the other thing on banking and health). More darkly, I think the frisson and edginess of pushing racist etc issues that attracts some to elements of the more unfortunate right also drives at least some of the anti-Zionism of the new left media. "At last, here is a left that can upset blue grand/parents and symbolic stand-ins/establishment types as much as the MAGA/populist right!" One issue that appears to be much worse on the left is how there are few overlapping audience networks between BreadTube type people, podcasts, websites, to form an ecosystem that includes text/twitch streaming/video/podcasts as a daily consumer lifestyle; I get the sense the average viewer of say Hasan Piker's show doesn't read any theoretical or text-based stuff coming from the same viewpoint
One of the biggest power moves you can make is aggressively discussing something that could be major in the future but is currently extremely boring; the reason the 2008 financial crisis came out of nowhere as a mainstream news story wasn't because the likes of the WSJ and FT didn't have articles on why subprime mortgage backed securities and CDO squared and the like were dubious as early as 2006 semi-regularly but because it would appear nowhere in the field of the zeitgeisty media consumer as seen as arcane. The issue of possible risks in private credit and Trump extending 401ks to more private credit probably one of the bigger stories this year as a win for the people who bankrolled Trump's victory but has gotten little play vs more sexy (literally, was a week or two off from Sydney Sweeney) stories even in serious normal media like NYTimes
The overlapping audience stuff is a good point.
Agree re— Gaza, too. Huge cold spot to miss in this piece
Gaza and the more controversial areas of trans politics (medical treatment of minors, transwomen in women's sports) seem to be the primary things jailbreaking the Omnicause.
But once you have a few escapees getting away scot-free, I think we're starting to see more "question everything" on the Left.
Still, though, the ideological policing on the Left is much more aggressive than that on the Right. And we're seeing a lot more doubling-down on the Omnicause by most of those who remain.
Not trying to argue with anyone in this thread, everyone eloquently advocated a viewpoint in which reasonable people may or not agree but IMO the “G” or “T” discussion has one major difference. Gaza (read: Palestine) is and has been a geopolitical tinderbox for millennia and no sound bite is going to fix anything. On the other hand, if Ds had the clarity of mind to just concede that males are stronger than females it would go so far on repairing their image. Put simply, if they’re going to lie about that simple fact, what else are they willing to lie about…here lies the median voter’s mistrust of the Democratic Party
I remember Gilder from the late nineties being a prophet for broadband. He wrote a book called Telecosm that was directionally correct, but he was also hyping broadband companies that all went bankrupt after the dot com bust. I had no idea about his previous work.
I checked his Wikipedia and he is or used to be an advocate for intelligent design. wtf.
he's a VERY weird guy. super interesting on technology, less interesting on things like feminism
Re: feminism, yeah, to put it mildly. Hard to believe a guy so forward thinking on so many things could be so retrograde when it comes to people.
My first main ChatGPT hallucination was it claiming Gilder's book Wealth and Poverty originated the TV/recording phrase "time shifting" when it was the CEO of Sony who did that, it isn't entirely a bad guess given Gilder's Life After Television book and other later Gilder writings are obsessed with TV futurism
Wait…there’s an intellectual dark web?
Sort of a dated term, on my part. It's what we originally called the anti-woke center! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
Interesting, hadn’t heard that term. Not sure I’d associate some of the peeps mentioned in that article as intellectuals, but whatever. 🙂
Thanks for the education.
Np! I'm trying to be less in the weeds w/ online stuff
Gilder’s sexual suicide got reprinted and rebranded recently - complete with “sage against the machine” merch https://canonpress.com/products/men-and-marriage
Oh man