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Q Is it the money? Is it the incentives? What is happening?
A There's a few things that happened. The first, as Jason was alluding to, is that the economic model changed. It used to be that if you ran a piece in the New York Times Your fear was you were gonna piss off the advertiser that was running next to the story. Once the business model shifted, you no longer were as concerned about, although you still are to some extent, about enraging, you know, Procter and Gamble. You're worried about enraging the reader, right? This is the phenomenon that so many people have talked about, which is, which is audience capture, which is as, you know, the individual sub-stacker is as susceptible to this as the New York Times. None of us are free from that phenomenon either.
AI assessment note: “The first, as Jason was alluding to, is that the economic model changed.”
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D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 3.70
Q And is that because the feeder schools changed, or is that because what they were taught at those schools changed?
A It's because wokeness happened to American liberalism. And the people that were speaking the language of progressivism all of a sudden transformed the notion of what, let's say, social justice was, right? All of a sudden social justice wasn't about doing good by the poor. It was actually about a kind of neo-racism and a resegregation. All of a sudden progressivism wasn't actually about human flourishing and progress. It was about, you know, ensuring Equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity, and I don't think that the sort of, that transformation, which some people have said, oh, wokeness has peaked, it's over, it cannot be overstated. The thing that began at the margins and at the fringe has moved into the center of American institutional life, and that is the story of the transformation of the New York Times, and it's the story of the transformation of Harvard and so many other places where people all of a sudden turned around and thought, When did everything get so insane?
AI assessment note: “It's because wokeness happened to American liberalism.”
