I'm not good at self-promotion. I'm terrible at it, actually. I watch people build personal brands — LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads, conference talks — and I genuinely don't understand how they do it without wanting to crawl out of their own skin. There are people who dominate rooms just by existing in them. I'm the one standing near the exit, thinking of something I'll wish I'd said three hours later.
I don't know where this comes from. Failure, probably. Enough of it that visibility started feeling dangerous. There's something in me that resists being known — not in a mysterious, romantic way, but in a broken way. The kind that makes simple things like updating a bio feel impossible.
And yet. I have opinions. Strong ones. Ones that keep me up at night, ones that I've stress-tested against history and philosophy and my own inconsistencies. I want those opinions to exist in public. I just don't want me to exist in public alongside them.
So here we are. A blog with no face. A name — Gab — and nothing else. The arguments are the whole thing. If they're good, they don't need my face. If they're bad, my face wouldn't help.
Every culture on Earth has a concept of human worth. None of them define it the same way. But they all agree on one thing: there is a floor below which no person should be pushed. This series defends that floor.
Truth-seeking is a social achievement, not an individual one. Science works not because scientists are unbiased but because the structure channels bias into productive competition. The question is whether we can build that structure for democracy itself.
Polarization is a global epidemic — and the cure isn't regulating the machine. It's educating the human. Finland proved it. The rest of the world is still pretending it doesn't need to.
Intelligence doesn't protect you from bias — it arms it. But specific techniques, practiced deliberately, can reduce the distortion. The research is clear on what works, and equally clear on what doesn't.
The information supply chain is broken — but not beyond repair. Public broadcasting, platform redesign, prebunking, and structural journalism reform have measurable effects. Here is what the evidence says.
The solution is structural — but structures are built by people. The research is clear on what works. The question is what you will actually do.