Is Individualism the Problem? Toward a System of Free Expression that Challenges the Media Individualism Complex (opens in new tab)

Any attempt to reconstruct a system of free expression in today’s information system would be smart to address one of its core frictions: though “the media” is ostensibly charged with developing and caring for shared interests, it is persistently dominated by powerful individuals—a system of individualism—who prevent it from being a force for collective meaning-making and democratic self-governance. The personalities driving the current U.S. federal government and its media allies are obvious...