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I recently appeared on several other podcasts, and was asked what I thought about a few prominent

people in our culture.

Some are prominent only at the fringe, or should only be there, but of course the fringe

is now everywhere, courtesy of social media.

Every part of culture, science, public health, war, economics, the lives of famous people,

conspiracy theories about everything and nothing, all information is in the process of being

massurated by billions of tiny mouths and then spit back again and lapped up by others.

So what is, in fact, mostly digital vomit at this point, is being spread everywhere and

celebrated as some new form of nutrition.

So there are people who we probably shouldn't know about, but do, and there are people who

should have no influence at all, but their influence is enormous.

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