Musing: If you model sections of the academia and media - what is called the “intellectual ecosystem”, not as a free market, but as a closed oligopoly, actually not even that because there is no market test, then one can see why bad ideas perpetuate. (1/n)
In the “real world” that many of us inhabit, large companies that are not innovative, get disrupted by more agile startups or attackers. That’s not as easy in the “intellectual ecosystem” because there is no currency such as actual consumer purchases, that acts as a test (2/n)
Anyway, as an outsider who is a consumer so to speak of intellectual outputs, I watch out for the heterodox ideas, because those are the “startups”- the ideas that actually merit greater consumption, as they bring fresh novel insight, but get killed in their infancy..::: (3/n)
..by zealous gatekeepers of this closed club. These are zero sum status games, not positive sum outputs. So as a consumer understand that power structure and hence what we need to do to self curate and discover content for ourselves. (4/n)
Social media makes that job MUCH easier just as digital does even for startups. Because it allows more efficient discovery and self curation. You will get more insight from a self curated list of “amateurs” who collectively generate more original insight at a faster ….(5/n)
…metabolic rate of idea production- critique and refinement; and even the discovery is easier and selection wider (as it is with all internet goods); this is much higher insight density (insight per unit time) than regular academia usually. (6/6)
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