Zuby

Yeah, there's right wing news and there's left wing news.

And that's where the money is and that's where the votes are and that's where the power and the influence lies.

So kind of breaking this duopoly is difficult.

to do in people's brains when it's what is put upon people and it's also really what's incentivized, not just at the sort of high politics level, but even at our level, right?

Being someone who is a media figure or a content creator, I don't love that term, but for lack of a better term, if you're someone who puts stuff out, it could be podcasts, it could be just tweets and social media posts, it could be videos, you're a political commentator.

it's a lot more lucrative and a lot less painful and also just cognitively a lot easier to just pick one side and just play completely on that side.

You literally make more money faster.

It's much more clear where you fit in

and who can hire you or what podcasts you can go on and so on.

And like, there's a whole ecosystem for left wing media and for right wing media in the US and also in some other countries.

So it's a lot easier to just play completely in one of those fields.

Beyond that, it's also a lot easier to take criticism from the other side than from your own side, right?

So if you're someone who's naturally more right leaning, conservative leaning, you know, you can deal with like,

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

It's not just like, OK, I'm here and I'm getting hit from one side.

It's like I'm standing in the middle and like I'm just being buffeted back and forth by people on both because I'm trying to have a little bit of nuance or maybe I'm not 100 percent this way and 100 percent opposed to this or vice versa.