Thread by @ZeeshanAleem

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the current state of the vote counting process unequivocally validates MY personal ideological preferences and pet projects and I secretly knew that this somewhat unexpected outcome would happen all along.

2/ I'm not picking on Fang's tweet, this is just one example I'm seeing across the ideological spectrum. But I want to point out that even in cases where people have actual data to work with, there's little actual interest in it. There's a total incuriosity about the world.

3/ We are being bombarded with so much data with so many possible mechanisms for explanation and so many pundits immediately seem to know why. There's no information-gathering process. People aren't even waiting for the final results, and are happy to use unreliable exit polls!

4/ The only beneficiaries of premature proclamations of what just happened are bullshitting Thought Leaders & their ambition to affirm the priors of their most loyal followers. The public is not enriched by this. And ultimately the Thought Leaders are corroding their own brains.

5/ On a more trivial note, isn't it fucking boring to constantly be certain about the nature of the world and what direction it will take? To not be perplexed by new information or probe at its possible origins? To experience self-doubt or ambivalence?

I've always got my finger on the pulse. My pulse, that is.