🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.
We haven’t built a healthier democratic infrastructure. We’ve built a fast-moving spectacle where truth is optional, dialogue is gamified, and power is rarely held to account. It feels participatory, but rarely changes anything that matters.
June 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We haven’t built a healthier democratic infrastructure. We’ve built a fast-moving spectacle where truth is optional, dialogue is gamified, and power is rarely held to account. It feels participatory, but rarely changes anything that matters.