Megan Garber

Like the divisions that used to exist on, say, newspapers and

on TV, you know, where you had kind of news versus opinion as very separate ideas and you had arts over here and sports over there and international news over there and everything kind of in its place.

We no longer have those divisions.

We no longer have those categories on social media, on the internet in general.

They really do converge and collapse into each other and

And I think that does explain a lot about why culture and politics are themselves collapsing and blending together, because that is the medium kind of having its way with us.

Yeah, I think that's absolutely right.

And one thing about social media is it makes it turns people into content consumers, but also content producers.

And so, you know, there's this sort of

obligation or implied obligation, at least not everyone has to do it, but this obligation to share your opinion and to have a take and to always be sort of adding your own content to things and having your own opinion about things.

And that, I think, is one of the

core features of social media, that sort of interplay between we are like passive consumers of events, of scandals, of culture, of politics, whatever it might be.

But we are also active creators of that in some ways, and at least creators of responses to what's happening.

So there's always this back and forth between taking it in and putting something out there for other people to consume.

Oh, I hope so.

I want to say yes.

I mean, I don't see us going back to the situation that was.

I don't see us going back to a place where, you know, culture and politics were relatively distinct propositions.

But I also don't think we have to just give in to the trends that exist, right?

And, you know, assume that the way things are right now are the way things are going to be.