Let's Build the World Wise Web - by Tom Morgan

A Call to Community

A decade has now passed since the emergence of the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW). Figureheads like Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein used their dizzying intellects to eloquently diagnose the deeper systemic issues with modern society. The problem was, raw intelligence is excellent at diagnosis and terrible at prescription. Too often the IDW simply believed that the cure for everything was for everyone to be as articulate and rational as them. Many of them failed to gain exit velocity from the gravitational pull of their own egos and crashed back to earth. The Intellectual Dark Web…

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