Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
Caveat: Let’s be careful not to overdo “the emotional manipulation gap.” The thing is, most people still aren’t media literate—to spot frames, not with long-ass podcasts, not with cable, not even with old-school TV. So expecting them to decode short-form video, especially at scale, is not realistic. But yes, it’s probably going to disrupt the disruptors. The tech world still hasn’t cracked how to replicate the algo at scale. And that makes it potentially as disruptive to the U.S. as Facebook and early Twitter were to the rest of the world.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
The fix? It’s not hidden. It’s just unpalatable. Everyone’s been silently pushed a mental firmware update that trips a kernel panic the moment you suggest legislation might belong in the loop. And that’s the joke: every civic failure gets framed like a product bug. Like we just need the right A/B test, the right growth hack, the right startup to “reimagine” public infrastructure. Anything but laws. God forbid we touch policy. The real move? Roll back some of the platform protections. Reboot the media stack to pre-Consolidation—before the ’93 Telecom Act gutted the commons, before Section 230 turned every site into a liability-averse panic room monetized through outrage. But you bring that up and people glitch. Not because it’s wrong—because they literally can’t run it. It’s not in the stack. The OS chokes. Hard fail.
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