The digital age is not just about a change in behaviour. It marks the divergence of rhetoric from solutions and one generation's analogy set from reality,

NFT scammers rely on lack of knowledge of buzzwords. Soon, they run out of gullibles as people understand the scam. But is there a way to avoid this end of growth? Has it been put into practice in politics?

Historical narratives are increasingly misused in politics. Moreover, the attempt to manipulate historical allegories has shifted from being a conflict-zone phenomenon to the United States and the West as a whole. All of this is based on a fundamental flaw: that history is a straight line. How to avoid this fallacy and rebuild a unified morality are explored in this episode.

The recently passed Rush Limbaugh, partisan right radio host, symbolized a fork in the road for Republican media strategy. This has fractured the right, with some such as Ben Shapiro claiming that Limbaugh disrupted a media monopoly, while others such as Ross Douthat finding that he created a "dream palace" driving an insular right-wing. As always, there are many layers deeper, including an asymmetric chicken game between the left and the right when engaging in corruption. Finally, we follow the psychology, looking at the symbiotic nature of left and right, as well as how geographic polarization and network effects have overturned this balance.Subscribe to the newsletter at https://cactus.substack.com/.Give us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/meta-politics/id1522581825.Contact us at [email protected].

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Cactus surveys how media has changed since MetaPol started, unveils the adventure for both longtime and new listeners, makes a case for agency and begins to build the new beacon chain.

Gina Carano, former MMA fighter and "Mandalorian" actress, is fired for comparing polarization to Nazi persecution, then hired by conservative media company Daily Wire. Cactus rebuts a common "rational" trope, explains embedded assumptions and gives a prediction on the erratic, irrational motivations of polarized sub-communities.

This is the greatest reason to be an optimist in 2021. A first in a series of short, useful episodes.

Extending the decoherence model, we uncover the perpetuation loop of hypocrisy and anti-ideological contradictions.

The exponential function is presently the most dangerous phenomenon on earth. A virus has shut down societies. Network effects overpowered entrenched wall street investors. Conspiracy theories dominate American politics.While some have the evidence to understand each of these events, almost none have dealt with them effectively. The answer is a fundamental human flaw that must be broken out of.