# Outright Rejection Doesn't Scale By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-03-15 Post-modern ideas often don't scale because much of what scales today is built on the industrial systems that post-modern ideas critique or oppose. But what about the internet? Can't ideas scale there? As much as ideas can spread on the internet, they do not scale as things scale in society and culture. The internet is a medium with endless choices. As a result, ideas are only available to the groups who seek them out. Once something makes it onto a mainstream website, the idea might be known but not fully understood and accepted. For example, see flat earthers. We know of this idea, but it's a fringe oddity and not an idea that has scaled to acceptance and daily life incorporation. In other words, it is a fad, and the internet is great at producing fads. So, as much as the internet is a place where power dynamics align with post-modern agendas, it is not well-suited for widespread acceptance. It seems that scale requires modern and industrial compromises. Perhaps one conjures up the idea that the end justifies the means. We know the downfalls that easily happen here. It is a slippery slope. All of this points to the issue of movements that outright reject prior movements. Rejection requires getting rid of everything about it. This prevents you from using anything that happened to be good. Rarely is outright rejection the path forward. Evolution is much better. Reject what doesn't work and accept what did. #### Related Items [[Post-modern]] [[Metamodernism]] [[Ideas]] [[Society]] [[Choice]] [[Evolution]]