I sat my 7-year-old down and explained to him that dying industries (legacy media, academia, DNC politics) ride algorithmically driven cultural hysterias both because itโs the only way they can stay relevant and because their business models demand it.
He looked up at me and with a tear in his eyes asked, โso, for the sake of the journos, the assistant professors, and Dem Politics Inc, weโre obligated to attest to the moral urgency of the hysteria and act completely emotionally dysregulated?โ
โYes,โ I answered him. โYes, thatโs right.โ
And then we both sat quietly.