necessarily in a good way. And that's another question, Chuck, which is like, can we make normative statements about, can we say that the 90s were better objectively than today because of this fact? But there are a number of other things. We're not going to get to all of them. There are a lot of interesting things in your book, like celebrity. Also, another thing that I thought about, which is the ladder of success. Me, I spent my life moving from career to career and made my own career in media and really was able to do that because of the tools of blogging and social media and podcasting and video and all this stuff, something that would have been available to me. I had to go through the ladder of traditional media. And so there's something interesting about how our ability to exercise power over our career and all this stuff, how that's changed conspiracies and the move of conspiracy being this private thing that I used to listen to Coast to Coast AM. And I used to watch Unsolved (55/57)
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