Chris Best

And some of it turned out to be right, probably.

Like some of the, you know, people who are questioning some of the measures, I think you can, I don't know if we've resolved the question of where COVID came from, but I think it's at least an open question that's legitimate and to debate and shouldn't be, you know, shut down with accusations of racism or whatever.

Yeah.

And that was another kind of a moment for me that exposed why this stuff actually matters.

You have to let people ask questions.

You have to let people challenge the received wisdom, even if they're wrong, even if they seem crazy.

I just think that's a crucial part of a free society.

And Substack has been that.

We've drawn a lot of criticism for that.

Here's another piece of this.

I think there's a place where I saw a lot of companies...

go off the rails, I think, especially in sort of like 2020 around that era was like, the way these things would work was there'd be like this, you know, you get like a social media mob that would show up.

Any surface on the internet that you would open would just have all of these people shrieking at you and telling you that you're the worst person and threatening you and all of this stuff.

And I think part of what social media does is create a false illusion of consensus.

It would feel like everyone was mad at you or everyone hated you or everyone thought what you were doing was crazy.

When really it would be like there's like a couple hundred people that are really ginned up about this.

And I think it's very tempting if that happens to you.

to give in and to say, okay, okay, okay.

I hear you.

I'm listening and learning.