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The painful realization about social media and most forms of media is that, at the end of the day, even the people you like, the people you agree with, have ver
by noah_buddy 6y ago
The painful realization about social media and most forms of media is that, at the end of the day, even the people you like, the people you agree with, have very little in common with you and far more in common with those they vocally disagree with, generally.
I'm generally politically very left and I listen to a show which I won't name here but is also relatively left. At some point, I realized the income the hosts make puts them squarely in the same economic bracket as many of the people that they are often calling greedy or unprincipled. From that realization stemmed the next, that these people, even if they started with perfect intention and perfect action, necessarily must be subverted towards entertainers over informers by the design of the platforms they use to spread their message.
- viridian 6y agoThis post feels 100% like it's about Chapo.
- fearingreprisal 6y agoYes. Surely it's about Chapo. I'd certainly not call them as 'greedy' or 'unprincipled' as the people they criticise. However I'll not waste this opportunity to call them bland, effete and ignorant.
- mrslave 6y agoPlease stop downvoting comments just because you disapprove. This is probably the worst practice on HN of late. This post is entirely independent of the subject being discussed. I have no opinion on these particular podcasters.
- fearingreprisal 6y agoI don't even have the rep to downvote comments.
- mrslave 6y agoLate reply. It was your comment that had been downvoted into the negative when I came across it. So I was engaging in a kind of off-topic defense of your comment. ;-)