The paradox of popularity: how popular messages are not necessarily viral

In the post High-status, low-status conservatism in regard to a Tweet by Eric Trump, I discuss the paradox of popularity, which how popular messages are not necessarily viral. A social media post, commentary, or opinion may be popular in terms of social signals (likes, comments, retweets, views, etc), but this does not imply that is… Continue reading The paradox of popularity: how popular messages are not necessarily viral

So much for that…

Having purged any dissenters from his site, Vox is back to discussing Jordan Peterson, comic books, Disney, and other pressing matters of national importance, as if him hyping Q and ‘the storm’ over 2019-2020 never happened. You cannot just ‘memory hole’ Q and expect no one will notice. To recap, in 2019 and 2020, leading… Continue reading So much for that…

The March Towards A Post-Scarcity Economy: Thoughts and Implications

The possibility of a post-scarcity economy is no longer a sci-fi or political-science abstraction, but is rapidly becoming reality, as I predicted a year ago in the Jan 2020 article Is a post-scarcity economy possible? It’s already happening. Since the publication of that article, all of the trends I forecasted have accelerated: bigger and richer… Continue reading The March Towards A Post-Scarcity Economy: Thoughts and Implications