“What is “cognitive feudalism”?”
“The Corporate Free-Speech Movement focuses its analysis on the nature of freedom within that marketplace. It presents the case that a marketplace of ideas in which one idea or interest is significantly advantaged over all others is in reality no marketplace at all. Such a marketplace is characterized by an inequitable distribution of opportunities. It is a market structured through law to maintain domination by a small number of favored participants, leaving others who would trade in the market at a disadvantage. A free marketplace of ideas advances democratic decisionmaking that reflects the interests of the citizenry at large. A market that structurally favors a few participants advances government shaped more by feudal deference to the interests of the advantaged powers.”
This is a fascinating framing.
I don’t want to actually read the book, definitely not my field, but I want someone else to read it for me and send me the most useful parts.
That should totally be a thing, outsourcing stuff to friends who will send back what they want you to know.
Related: Free Speech isn’t Free
