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I'd be interested in why you would focus on "Gutenberg Galaxy vs Social Media", rather than "Gutenberg Galaxy vs Fox News", or even television in general?

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A sense that Fox News is fringe, but Facebook is mainstream. And the pre-social media TV era was not horrible. But I could be wrong...

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Minor Typo, maybe? Did you intend the first sentence of final paragraph to be something like "In this context, *cries that the mores* of those in the past were different from ours, and that we should not judge them, *are* mostly demands that we not focus. . . "

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Thx..

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I fear that your ambition to duplicate MacAskill's success is hopeless; MacAskill's book is popular for the usual reason that people read it in what they want to be told. Not that MacAskill has shaped his message for this purpose, of course; he is always intelligent, usually interesting, and quite often correct (more often than most of us.) He views his claims about the future as a logical extension of his life's moral project to protect and nurture the unprivileged. But for most of his readers, the appeal of longtermism lies in its denial of shorttermism; it is a way to justify comforting the comfortable. I do not think that you would want success at this price.

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