Intellectual Dark Web

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    I saw an excerpt from this interview and he made a really interesting point. Maybe the polarization we are seeing has a lot to do with the things you just can't talk about in polite company anymore. And because you can't talk about them, nobody does and there's a big vacuum in the middle where the nuanced ideas would normally be. All you are left with are the ideas way out on the fringes that get spouted by antisocial people.
    Probably a bad paraphrase, but I think there's something to that.

    ttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUD...

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    • Stephen Pinker on Joe Rogan podcastmonNom
    • much of it is self perpetuating. The intellectual dark web is just the web renamed for marketing purposes. The sense of victimhood is overplayedFax_Benson
    • @fax. No it's not. The IDW is a name given to a group of people including Harris, The Weinsteins, Perterson, Hoff-Somers etc as a joke and it stuck.Morning_star
    • https://en.wikipedia…Morning_star
    • not literally - I mean that joke tag has been adopted as a marketing ploy. The whole rebel outsider, too hot for the mainstream silliness.Fax_Benson
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