Don't know if you guys had heard about it, but it's relevant to all of us basically, because uncensored intellectual conversations happen on forums like this one, Youtube, podcasts, etc., because of free speech being shut down in the West.
What is driving the rise of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web?’
Thoughts on intellectual dark web personalities, or the movement as a whole?
What is driving the rise of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web?’
Quote:Quote:http://conatusnews.com/rise-intellectual-dark-web/
Public discourse in recent years is increasingly characterised by polarisation and an emotionally divided political landscape. The Right in the Western world struggles to grapple with rampant populism that degrades the political process with nativist sentiment whilst a concurrent fractured identity discourse sees the Left increasingly searching for traitors over converts. Where in the current fraught climate is a space for free dialogue held in good faith? Is the burgeoning ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ the new forum for intellectual debate that is sorely needed?
For several public intellectuals and pundits, as part of a new digital network of podcasts and talk shows, the ‘safe space’ for dialogue is not in the universities or mainstream news media outlets but online. Coined by Eric Weinstein, economist and director of Thiel Capital, the term Intellectual Dark Web refers to this emergent space. A veritable Mos Eisley cantina of disaffected leftists, conservatives and liberals are found here conducting their own political discourse. Creating their own podcasts and crowd-funding with supporters through tools like Patreon, these thinkers are subject to no authority but themselves.
Figures of all political and ideological persuasions are found on these podcasts....
Thoughts on intellectual dark web personalities, or the movement as a whole?