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> intellectual emptyness of traditional media.

What do you mean by this? What does "traditional media" mean in this context? Anything that isn't self-published?

I think pretty clearly he's referring to the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies.

A specific term coined by Curtis Yarvin, "The Cathedral," comes to mind.

Ah yes, clearly he meant "the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies." I missed some obvious contextual clues there.

If the alternative to traditional media is more Moldbug, I'll pass.

I was just thinking how I prefer reading the Substacks I follow over articles like this one in the New Yorker