Chris Best

And it has these properties, right?

It's a place where you can be free and independent, right?

You can own your plot of land.

You can start your business.

You can have your own space in this great city.

And you can do with it as you see fit.

You can have creative freedom.

You can do the work you really believe in.

You can make this culture.

And then there's sort of like a...

The more and more time people are like putting their time and energy and money and creative efforts and attention into this kind of city that works in a different way, it's creating culture.

It's creating a real alternative to some of the other ways that people feel online, where a lot of the places people spend their time online, I think, just feel like, you know, a slot machine or feel like going to a casino or feel like kind of plugging into a drug and just sort of stepping away from their life.

I mean, larger, larger in what way?

I mean, there's in population, in users, maybe in population, probably maybe in time spent in economic value.

I don't know about that.

You know, I wrote this piece called The Two Futures of Media, where I think, and I think this ties into kind of like the AI world, where one view of media is to view it as a drug, basically.

It's like, hey, media, the point of media is how I feel in the moment when I use it.

It's an escape.

It's a thing that I do to just change my current feeling or mental state.

And I think that that thing is very real.