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Video: Why Political Debate Sucks Now (Patreon)

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Hey all!

Anyone looking for a little Sunday evening watch? (Or, you know, whatever-day-and-time-it-is-where-you-are watch?)

Here's my latest piece which, as things stand, I'm calling Why Political Debate Sucks Now.

It's a little reflection on the public sphere, the internet, positioning, and "context collapse"; ideas I've been thinking about for some time, but which seemed hyper relevant to some of the fall out of Charlie Kirk's murder, and some of the discursive fall-out which followed.

Hopefully some interesting food for thought!

Tom

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Why Political Debate Sucks Now

Go to https://hensonshaving.com/tomnicholas and enter "TOMNICHOLAS" at checkout to get 100 free blades with your purchase. A video about "context collapse" and how it's made all our political conversations deeply frustrating. And perhaps worse. Written, directed and presented by Tom Nicholas. Edited by Georgia Burrows. Production support by Jack Carter. Watch this video ad- and sponsor-free on Nebula at https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-why-political-debates-suck-now Support my work on Patreon at https://patreon.com/tomnicholas *Chapters* 00:00 I Don't Know What My Role is Anymore 02:19 Part One: The Political Opinion-Haver Cube 07:05 Part Two: BeforetheFall.com 14:05 Part Three: Context Collapse Confusion 18:47 Part Four: Was Silence Not an Option? 24:01 Part Five: Leveraging Context Collapse 30:27 Part Six: The Crackdown Twitch: http://twitch.tv/tom_nicholas Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Select footage courtesy of Getty Music from Epidemic Sound

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Sam Aronow

Hot take: maybe not even influential people *need* to comment on everything that happens. I don’t agree with everything Natalie said, but her basic point was right; even in the old days we didn’t demand that every syndicated columnist comment on everything (they rotated column space too). We were fine with it because there (usually) wasn’t as much parasocoality. And I do wish you’d touched on the parasocial aspect of context collapse (in both directions) a little more:

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