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The '''gated institutional narrative''' is like an exchange, a financial exchange, except it's an exchange of information and ideas. | The '''gated institutional narrative''' is like an exchange, a financial exchange, except it's an exchange of information and ideas. | ||
In order to actually participate in this particular special conversation, you need to have a seat on the exchange. That is, you need to write for an important paper, like the Wall Street Journal, or you need to be a Senator or a Congressman so that you can gain access to the news media, where you need to be sitting at a news desk in any of these situations, whether you're a professor, or a reporter, or a politician | In order to actually participate in this particular special conversation, you need to have a seat on the exchange. That is, you need to write for an important paper, like the Wall Street Journal, or you need to be a Senator or a Congressman so that you can gain access to the news media, where you need to be sitting at a news desk in any of these situations, whether you're a professor, or a reporter, or a politician. If you can gain a seat inside of the Gated Institutional Narrative, you can attempt to converse with other people within that particular conversation. | ||
The rest of us do not have the same level, or kind, of access to this highly rarefied discussion. It's comparable to what we would term a promotion inside of the world of professional wrestling. [https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783 It's an agreed-upon structure in which people often agree to simulate dispute]. Rather than actually have disputes (because somebody could get really seriously injured) the participants are in fact, working together to produce, an engaging, and regular, product for mass-consumption. | The rest of us do not have the same level, or kind, of access to this highly rarefied discussion. It's comparable to what we would term a promotion inside of the world of professional wrestling. [https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783 It's an agreed-upon structure in which people often agree to simulate dispute]. Rather than actually have disputes (because somebody could get really seriously injured) the participants are in fact, working together to produce, an engaging, and regular, product for mass-consumption. | ||