@zephoria Really interesting points in the piece:

"Network effects intersect with perception to drive a sense of a site's social relevance and interpersonal significance."

"We're in a modern day Coliseum watching a theater of suffering performed for the king under the rubric of 'justice.'

Thanks for sharing your thinking and expertise - I do wonder about your final question of failure as a desired end goal and if this is all a kind of "chaos is a ladder" type of opportunism