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“Social media is based on a simple economy: Outgoing attention is the labor that social media requires of its proletariat; incoming attention is the wage it pays them. The group dynamics in this economy of little Willy Lomans all but ensure that the majority of the ordinary person’s social-media interactions are with like-minded people and that these groups of like-minded people self-radicalize in the way most like-minded groups do, a pattern that has long been familiar to scholars of deliberation and group psychology.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“Like Don Corleone, I don’t judge a man for how he makes his living. What I judge a man for is something else: Not the desire to have an audience, to make money, all that sort of thing, but the abject, craven, humiliating need to be loved by strangers. I mean the emptiness that a certain kind of man or woman tries to fill with adulation, characteristic of the man who cannot stand in front of a crowd without being possessed to deliver corny prepackaged applause lines, who will kiss the collective ass of the mob—and any mob will do—because that mob ass simply must be kissed.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“Outrage is intoxicating, and like other intoxicants, it makes people stupid.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“You can’t shout ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater" is an abominably stupid cliché that has empowered more mob rule than the AK-47.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics