For every one of those here, there are 1,000X more out there like them. We’ve managed through this before, but social media has made anti-intellectualism the do

For every one of those here, there are 1,000X more out there like them. We’ve managed through this before, but social media has made anti-intellectualism the dominant strain of public expression. It is only natural for public leaders to follow. It’s where the action is. It was nearly a millenia between the sacking of Rome and the Renaissance. Intellectuals seem to have the idea that we can’t have that type of reset again. As populations options narrow with climate change and vaunted scientists fail to provide solutions, those populations will turn elsewhere.