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In our society, elite competition happens largely on the fields of LinkedIn. If you're a well-educated and well-to-do member of our societies who wants to compete for prestigious white-collar jobs (and most of my readers likely fall into that class, even if we sit on the margins of it: however poor and financially strained we are, it remains fundamentally impossible to actually de-educate a person), you do that by *being heard*. We write short-form content on social media and longer-form content on blogs, we speak at conferences and make videos, we publish podcasts, we do all kinds of things to get people to see our faces, know who we are and believe us to be clever and possessing abundant authority. As access to the elite becomes steadily tighter, we find ourselves under more and more pressure to succeed at these contests. This has led to some perverse incentives. The goal, after all, is to be seen and heard first, and to communicate something of importance second if at all. You're expected to do this using formats generally associated with the communication of ideas in text, and you're expected to do this in volume. You see that a lot of the people who succeed the most do a lot of this. But there's no explicit demand that you communicate anything truly serious, and in fact a lot of people who succeed the most don't really say anything serious. As a result of this, people feel an awful lot of pressure to speak, to publish and to express, and the fact that a lot of the time they don't have much of a truth or coherent idea to express is irrelevant. Consequently, we're drowning in slop and banality.

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