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How do you understand the shift (post-9/11 in general, and especially from Wikileaks forward) of mainstream news organizations toward attacking leakers and whistleblowers instead of celebrating them or even just focusing on straight reporting of the leaked information? Do you worry that you personally, and the institutions you work for generally, have become so focused on maintaining cozy relations with the security state that you may be incapable even of recognizing, much less fostering, information flows that would allow for functionally democratic opinion-formation?

Love how these jerks do AMAs but never answer questions that touch on their journalistic malpractice.

Given that most mainstream/commonsense views about how to live are clearly pretty bad (since they're literally destroying our planet's carrying capacity for humans and other charismatic animals), how has your approach to giving advice shifted as you've come to see that we're in a process of staggered collapse?