I do not hold this percieved misunderstanding against Brian, though, because alot of the things that make this read of the text obvious are relatively new changes to our condition. Like, much of Brian’s work is around the turn of the millennia and the internet and digital technology while there and impressive and certainly more highly evolved than in the 90’s it is still (I think it’s safe to say) before these more insidious systems were developed and widely adopted. We weren’t having widespread conversations about how Twitter as a platform incentivizes anti-intellectual social interaction or youtube/facebook algorithms curating the information you recieve for you etc. back then.

It does lead me to ask though, how Frank perceived this so well despite being even further temporally removed from these things; but I think these same lines I drew with the internet and social media can be drawn with capital-curated media substituting the much more explicitly 1 to 1 translation of The Algorithm ™