Thanks for your thoughtful summary and it was a good call to read Westenbergs full post. I wonder about your reference for those compelled to enter the discourse to gain “traction” (it was worded in the full piece differently about 50000 likes)— I am relieved to be relatively unimportant in the public sphere, that any hot take I might make is of of no rankable value. Ego is in the mix?

Therefore rather than trying to have a stake in the big discourse I prefer if stirred by something better to playfully mock it. And indeed to amuse myself.

Which is Postman funny, as Westenberg reference his book, my sarcastic brain went to mocking it as “Scrolling Myself to Death” which I thought was ha ha original. Now I know that’s never true and on a web search I find it’s already book title— from a religious group.

Now I lost track of my point, but am thinking about what it is about us that drives us to have that stake in the big discourse?

And looking at the TIMN diagram in your other post, why is the N a single network over a network of many networks? Or do they fracture to me T?

Thanks for Sunday morning reading that distracted (!) me from even making coffee!