Balaji Srinivasan

That's why there's no accountability for all the fake news because another version is the head of the Hydra, right?

One reporter prints something fake, but all the other reporters repeat it.

Now they've got strength in numbers, right?

This is actually something that they do very well is they actually have a better esprit de corps and a better loyalty to each other in a sense than all these libertarian individualists, the sovereign individuals who ever do, right?

They don't want to listen to each other, right?

Like the independence is both their strength and their weakness, just like the NPC-ness is both their weakness and their strength, right?

Okay, the other side.

Point being, once you understand the school of fish strategy, like Russell conjugations, just like gives you conceptual frames to understand the strengths of the legacy media and also their weaknesses.

Okay.

And only by doing this, you know, the Sun Tzu thing, right?

If you know, let me make sure you get it right.

It's like, if you know yourself and you know your rival, you will never lose a thousand battles.

Yeah, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of 100 battles, okay?

And why is that?

That means that you don't get in a fight unless you know you can win.

Another version of it is, another thing he says is, successful generals win first and then go to war.

Unsuccessful generals go to war first and then expect to win, right?

To be clear, we never wanted to fight the media.

I never had any issues with them.

But they decided to fight us.