Chris Best

We're not going to play the same game as that thing.

What I think we can do is we can give people a real alternative and we can say there is a different, you know, you can take back your mind.

The point of media is not only to get what you want, it's to learn what to want.

It's to participate in culture with other people.

It's to act back on the world.

I think that thing can be in the moment less compelling, but in the long run is much more compelling.

And I think there's a flywheel effect where as more people choose that,

as you can kind of see what happens when people choose that, and as those people get sort of richer and better lives, you can create a real alternative.

And I don't think that it will be necessarily economically smaller than the bad version.

We'll be right back.

So I think it's intensely cosmopolitan.

We have this, you know, I think of Substack sometimes as like an index fund of culture, right?

There's this space for everyone.

And whoever you are, your tribe is kind of there.

And there's like the good version of your tribe.

you know, your subculture, your artistic community, your ideology, your people.

And so your thing is there, there's a home for you there, and there's this richness of 10,000 other tribes, other cultures, other literal geographies, other topics, other kinds of people.

It's this, you know, you can have this massive...

diversity, intellectual diversity, cultural, you know, subcultural diversity, and it can coexist in peace.

And people can have their, you know, experience these different parts of themselves and different parts of culture in a way that kind of fits together and doesn't get sort of homogenized into one great slurry.