I wanted to take a quick moment to thank all of you who have subscribed to my Substack and explain what I am hoping to accomplish. My appreciation to all of you who have subscribed after reading a crazy comment. Imagine you had a pair of magical glasses. Just like in the movie “They Live” with Roddy Piper, these glasses don’t distort or add new elements to the world. Rather these glasses allow you to see *through* distortions by removing them from your view. The general sea of mind control that we all swim in every day, that we politely call things like “Spin,” “Opinion Pieces,” or “Advertisement” is filtered from your vision by these glasses. Specifically, these glasses let you see through distortions online.
First of all, congratulations on becoming a father.
Overall, I like this idea. If it ever were to play out, I see it as more of a private nonprofit BBB or Trustpilot system for journalists than anything... but that's not exactly a bad thing either. There are good journalists in many failing institutions, but the layman (me) has a hard time distinguishing them from the partisan hack.
Would it be a good thing if it were a public good? My real problem with this plan lies here...
"The Index is a public good, managed by your elected representatives based on topic."
I'm not sure I would entrust the government to manage the tool that would, in theory, be in charge of holding the government accountable.
Thanks for sharing a very much needed thought proposal to the table of discussion. You are being part of the great construction that is underway in counter to the destructive ideals of our current empire.
First of all, congratulations on becoming a father.
Overall, I like this idea. If it ever were to play out, I see it as more of a private nonprofit BBB or Trustpilot system for journalists than anything... but that's not exactly a bad thing either. There are good journalists in many failing institutions, but the layman (me) has a hard time distinguishing them from the partisan hack.
Would it be a good thing if it were a public good? My real problem with this plan lies here...
"The Index is a public good, managed by your elected representatives based on topic."
I'm not sure I would entrust the government to manage the tool that would, in theory, be in charge of holding the government accountable.
Thanks for sharing a very much needed thought proposal to the table of discussion. You are being part of the great construction that is underway in counter to the destructive ideals of our current empire.