ID nonbark

Random nonbarking thought about social media… Intelligent Design, at least by the keyword, is totally absent from Substack.

The search brings up several newsletters that use the pair of words in a colloquial way (designing your life smartly, or smart use of UI/UX) and exactly two newsletters claiming to be about ID in the proper sense. Both are empty shells, created two years ago and never actually used. People create shells in order to gain the membership privileges of ‘author’ status without really authoring anything.

Non-establishment views outside the standard R/D teams are at home in Substack.** ID fits into this category.

Many religious authors are on the ID side without digging into the official autistic details of ID. For instance, Naomi Wolf’s brilliant translation answered two of the big ID questions VASTLY better than the ID exponents.

So maybe the problem is lack of keywords, not lack of coverage. I noticed this lack when I was first trying out Substack a couple years ago. The search engine is NOT intelligently designed in the UI/UX sense, and makes it hard to find any subject of interest.

The lack may be deliberate. Founder Hamish McKenzie wants to form a community with multiple links among people, so he wants readers to find Author B through recommendations by Author A, not by a mechanical keyword search.

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** Unfortunately, Substack’s new Twitterish ‘Notes’ section is identical to Reddit or Medium. It’s purely dominated by the most repetitive and predictable D types. The non-partisans are barely present, invisible in the flood of FUCKTRUMP FUCKTRUMP FUCKTRUMP FUCKTRUMP FUCKTRUMP.