This one’s aging well. When algorithms reward outrage and spectacle, politics shifts from collective problem-solving to content creation; that drift is algorithmic polarization.
@GigaBasedDad the real story is that civilization advances when risk-takers, rule-makers, and the people doing the work all manage to coexist without strangling each other. History is basically the ongoing soap opera of those three groups trying—and often failing—to keep that balance.