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Interesting point. While I agree that the outcome has been bad or really catastrophic, I'm not sure it's the same cause.

Certainly ideas from positions of power need openeness and sunshine, speaking very generally. The problem on social media is the flood of crap that buries everything else, and nobody can keep up - the sunshine effect is overwhelmed.



> ideas from positions of power need openeness and sunshine, speaking very generally

Very generally. Transparency also incentivises grandstanding; you're always speaking to the audience, never to your counterpart.


Are you saying it's better for powerful people to make plans and develop ideas in secret? What about government?

At least to some significant degree, the grandstanding has nothing to do with the actual ideas and plans; it's part of the coverup; it's a distraction while the real plans are made. Grandstanders like Trump and Musk often say things they have no intention of following through on.

To the grandstanders, who are really propagandists, words are weapons and not information. And of course, everyone's words are some of each, but the grandstanders are far over toward one endpoint or axis on that graph.




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