@BowsacNoodle Thinking is evolving in a way that is much more communal and specialized. Each of the founders was well read on the Greeks, now we have swaths of people that are educated in peculiar genres of thought talking to each other instantaneously and simultaneously. You've got third-hand knowledge on the history of the Early European Farmer you picked up from a chain of knowledge sharing that lets you understand a meme about the neolithic age and the agricultural revolution. It's creating a much more holistic viewpoint of the world and it's only spreading out. This is the kind of thing people used to have to go to cities to get through socialization, or universities to access the depth of knowledge, but now wide and deep it is spreading out everywhere.
The fact Tucker's opinion, knowledge, and talking points on Russia are much closer to the right-wing internet consensus than the establishment or any mainstream dissident perspective, the fact that you can trace the outlook of powerful people through a chain of media that gets back to consensus-building platforms on the internet, says a lot. Even if the narrative is that they're all gatekeepers, they're coping with a much more powerful force, and I don't believe they're all totally gatekeeping, because it is a much more powerful force. It only makes sense that more and more people are aligning with it.
And this is all happening extraordinarily fast. We are 2020+4 and think about everything that's happened. Kanye was two years ago.