Saturday March 17, 2018; 3:42 PM EDT
I guess the Trump people feel they have to move now. I don't think they'll have much support. Even his base will be split. Obviously there's something explosive about to come out. But this isn't Watergate. It's more like BattleStar Galactica. It's a war and we're fighting an inhuman enemy, one that doesn't behave like a human. It's an amalgam of all of humanity.#- Trump being gone won't help us very much because so much has changed. A silent war has been going on. We have not had any defenses. It's an asymmetric war, unlike any we've ever (not) fought. The press is oblivious, still, focused on the Watergate-ness of the situation and missing that now our society and economy are fully wired, to an extent not even foreshadowed in the time of Watergate. #
- The press ought to listen to techies. We're still seen as low-level workers. But our counterparts in Russia and elsewhere are undermining everything. Here too probably. #
- Nailing Trump won't fix it. It would be like killing a comedian, a distraction. The real action has been on our networks. #
- Remember what McLuhan said. It's not about armies anymore, it's about media. And we, all of us, are media now. #
- Imagine journalism as a rectangular box. They've tried to move what they do from print to the net without changing the shape of the box. In their world this all as a replay of Watergate. It's familiar, they know what to do, and btw it had a happy ending. That's what we call wishful thinking. A bit of a bedtime story.#
- We always prepare to fight the last war. We're doing it again. #