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The centre cannot hold"- Yeats, 1919

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Felix Ghauri

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The centre cannot hold

The centre cannot hold”- Yeats, 1919 The centre doesn’t exist” - Social media, 2025

A striking Financial Times chart visualises what we all probably sense: on Meta and X, the moderate middle has vanished.

(Of course we’re all impossibly reasonable here on LinkedIn ;))

Traditional media shows a normal distribution- most content clusters around the centre. Cable TV wobbles but holds. Social media looks like it’s missing a centre.

This is why every issue now has only two sides, both furious and why nuance feels like an endangered species.

Yeats watched his centre overwhelmed. We’re watching ours get deleted.

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Felix Ghauri

Applied AI Practitioner · Founder, Futures Forum

Felix helps organisations navigate AI and exponential change. He writes about technology, geopolitics, and the future of work.

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