No newspaper benefited more from the demise of small, narrowly targeted newspapers serving ethnic communities as well as ideological communities. And now, over 100 years after they were pressed to the fringes and declared undesirable, they are back."Only repeated crises have taught us that these platforms are not bulletin boards but hyper-velocity global bloodstreams into which anyone may introduce a dangerous virus without a vaccine." -@shoshanazuboffhttps://t.co/N3f2GtHXEL— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) January 26, 2020
Which is not to say they are good, but neither are they per se bad. Some ideas are on the fringe for a reason. But some voices are forced to the fringe because of power; and power is also an ideology. Power is the most dangerous virus. The only vaccine for it is the constant, voluntary, and deliberate rejection of power. Because power corrupts, the only real vaccine against it is powerlessness.
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