> MO this phenomenon seems to be kind of an artifact of modern media -- I feel like in the old days, peers would have settled it among themselves, and we would

> MO this phenomenon seems to be kind of an artifact of modern media -- I feel like in the old days, peers would have settled it among themselves, and we would have never heard about it That’s what happened here—peers settled it among themselves. > there is a lot of stuff that people talk about, that ends up being worth ignoring Of course. The thing is, you never know whether it’s worth ignoring or not unless some people pay attention to it. > How many people spent time and energy on that, and how do they feel about that now? Pretty good that we didn’t go to war with North Korea? > Media is adversarial In some cases it’s adversarial, and in some cases it’s complicit. In that case specifically, sabre rattling was part of Trump’s negotiation tactics, and media playing up the possibility of war was his intention.