@jwz @Muddobbers @dangillmor centralization is simpler: easy to understand, easy to measure, easy to "monetize", also easy to write about. Decentralization is a far more complicated and messy process, but can also survive long beyond "turns out, our dictator needed some therapy" .. and evolve into something greater over time.

@codinghorror @Muddobbers @dangillmor Yeah but if I had just said "almost all journalists are lazy hacks" it wouldn't have sounded as deep, and I get paid by the word.