From the Desk of Kiler Davenport

Here's a simple question worth sitting with: who makes money when you're angry? In the attention economy, the answer is almost everyone except you. Media, platforms, and personalities are paid for attention. And the most reliable way to hold attention is to provoke. Calm people scroll less. Curious people leave to read something else. Satisfied people log off. Angry people stay. So over time, without anyone needing to plan it, the whole system drifts toward conflict. The posts that inflame get amplified. The ones that explain get buried. The version of "the other side" you see is the loudest and most extreme, chosen for you because it made you react. "No conspiracy required. The incentives do the work." That's what makes it so hard to resist. There's no single villain to expose, only a machine that runs on your reactions and gets better at triggering them every day. The result is a public that thinks it knows its neighbors, but actually knows a car...