> Exhausting This is increasingly the feeling with all public conversation no matter what the subject. The hyperconnected echo chambers of social media, copyc

> Exhausting This is increasingly the feeling with all public conversation no matter what the subject. The hyperconnected echo chambers of social media, copycat blogs and cheap online journalism are creating a system that only knows two states: silence or delirious excitement. Since silence doesnt pay the bills, what you get is a constant barrage of exaggeration. Its exhausting the same way being exposed to 120db noise is exhausting. The drowning of calm and informed discourse is not just another negative development that subtracts from our quality of life the way a polluted beach or river does. You can increasingly see the impact of hypes on decisions of policy bodies that should know better. Ultimately they are serving "the people" and if people agitate about crypto or AGI or whatever, then thats what they too will focus on.