Mike, I have been following you for about 6 months and am constantly chagrined that more people aren’t doing so. I might have to do (a WAG) with the fact that you don’t engage with other theories and public intellectuals on Substack’s. Like, for instance, Matt Yglesias, who is a major public intellectual with pubic intellectual with major cred in elite political/policy circles (MPIWMCIEPPC). (I assume you will take that in the spirit I in which it is preferred.) Making comments on their posts and/or restocking them with your own comments would quickly multiply the number of people out here who know you exist and who will be able to see that you have a terrific set of concepts and ideas to engage with. Your work/thinking deserves a much wider audience!
Whenever I see someone talking about peak woke or similar, I write a comment that we are in a creedal passion period which is scheduled to end in a few years and link that post. At present it has 528 views and 12 new subscribers almost all of which have come from the many times I have linked to it in notes.
I will try looking for opportunities with Yglesia's stuff.
He just did a recap and addendum to a series he has done defining Neoliberalism, which prompted me to quote you in both a comment and a restock and then send you the note above.
Sorry for all of the typos, but I’m sure you get my drift . . .
Mike, I have been following you for about 6 months and am constantly chagrined that more people aren’t doing so. I might have to do (a WAG) with the fact that you don’t engage with other theories and public intellectuals on Substack’s. Like, for instance, Matt Yglesias, who is a major public intellectual with pubic intellectual with major cred in elite political/policy circles (MPIWMCIEPPC). (I assume you will take that in the spirit I in which it is preferred.) Making comments on their posts and/or restocking them with your own comments would quickly multiply the number of people out here who know you exist and who will be able to see that you have a terrific set of concepts and ideas to engage with. Your work/thinking deserves a much wider audience!
I do reply to notes from big accounts. For example, I made this post when I had 11 subscribers.:
https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/cycles-of-radicalization
Whenever I see someone talking about peak woke or similar, I write a comment that we are in a creedal passion period which is scheduled to end in a few years and link that post. At present it has 528 views and 12 new subscribers almost all of which have come from the many times I have linked to it in notes.
I will try looking for opportunities with Yglesia's stuff.
He just did a recap and addendum to a series he has done defining Neoliberalism, which prompted me to quote you in both a comment and a restock and then send you the note above.
I did a reply to one of Matt's notes. I have not seen it in my stream. Did you see it?
Thanks