I agree wholeheartedly. I wouldn’t call myself an intellectual but I would call myself a thinker – and I try to see things from lots of different positions before drawing a conclusion and try to explore things in detail.

This particular article was written a long time ago. Between 2019 and early 2021 – it didn’t matter how loud anyone was, the only things being curated were pieces like this. It was the Dunning Kruger effect as mandated by Medium. Huge followings were built this way – and anyone writing outside of the general message (men are evil, women are empowered, White people your time is up) weren’t distributed.

Eventually, the readership started to decline. There’s only so much of this sort of thing people can take before they switch off. The Medium leadership decided to stop paying journalists sums of money to write puff pieces like the one I highlighted in this article. Writers like myself suddenly popped up on people’s feeds again – I gained 40 followers in 2020. I gained 400 in April 2021. The quality rather than the content seems important.

It’s a good move for Medium and seems to have brought a new wave of readers to the platform. Moderates and the centre right, alongside an older crowd. More importantly they’ve recognised that a left wing hegemony of voices wasn’t promoting discussion or tolerance and was effectively a right wing model of centralising power and wealth.

I hope you enjoy your Medium journey – there’s plenty here for an enquiring mind. If you haven’t found Ethan Siegal yet then I recommend getting deep into the science tags. It’ll take a while to build an audience and find your people but it’s a worthwhile endeavour if you want to write on here too. :o)