For all her pearl-clutching about harassment, @TaylorLorenz is embarked on her own harassment campaign—trying to intimidate a whole platform ( @joinClubhouse) into respecting her personal preferences.

But the real story is much bigger. (1/7)

Prestige editorial once solved a coordination problem for high-society; it provided a focal point, the basic premises which all high-society players could assume all the other players would respect. (2/7)

For people like @TaylorLorenz—whose status is based on sponsorship by prestige institutions—their only raison d'être is the historical inability of other high-status people to calibrate and distribute their beliefs independently.

The Clubhouse app is profound because it allows high-status individuals whose status is based on superior belief-calibration (especially successful founders and investors) to calibrate their beliefs privately. And also, paradoxically, to an audience, at the same time. (4/7)

To her credit, @TaylorLorenz is smarter than most of her peers in prestige activism-journalism. She understands her career will be threatened by any technology that allows high-status people to determine what’s true without prestige mediators such as @NYT. (5/7)

So @TaylorLorenz vs. @joinClubhouse isn't interesting as a beef, but as a bellwether.

If one person with an @NYT imprimatur can suffocate an awesome new communication platform, I'd fear Cancel Culture is just beginning.

If she can’t, I'd say we might be passing its peak. (6/7)

I hope everyone starts to see that the payoff to accurate, collective belief-calibration is so much greater than the cost of negative influencer campaigns.

Behind closed doors, nobody takes these careerist moral crusades seriously.

Place your bets accordingly. (7/7)