The Long Tail

Talent is not universal but it is widely spread: Give enough people the capacity to create, and inevitably gems will emerge.

Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what it’s told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.

Order it wrong and choice is oppressive; order it right and it’s liberating.

This is the end of spoon-fed orthodoxy and infallible institutions, and the rise of messy mosaics of information that require—and reward—investigation.