Jimmy Wales

And as the media has become more polarized, it has also become less trusted.

And as it has become less trusted, its business model problems worsen, and therefore it becomes more polarized, chasing clicks and chasing an audience that's more radicalized and so on.

None of this is good.

It's not how we want to live.

I mean, I think we're very happy to say, actually, we don't know all the answers.

We're going to muddle through.

Some ideas are good.

Some ideas are bad.

But figuring out which or which is a big, complicated societal problem.

We probably need to move a little slow and make some compromises and also not assume that anyone who disagrees with us on any little thing is a raving maniac of some sort.

And I think both sides are quite guilty of this.

You know, on the left, there's sort of this view that they're all a bunch of Bible thumping Nazis of some sort.

And on the right, they're all like pink haired trans activists or something.

And it's like,

Actually, most people aren't either of those things.

You know, most people have a belief system and they're willing to accept that people don't agree about everything and that probably we need a middle ground approach and so on and so forth.

And to the extent that the media is not helping, well, that's unfortunate.

I think that's just deeply unfortunate.

It's like a game and it's like, no, it's not actually a game.

Probably globally.