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Big Tech vs. Hollywood; AI vs. Journalism; Socialists vs. Bananas

Offline with Jon Favreau

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The Importance of Empathy in Democracy

When everyone is watching their own AI tailored entertainment and not talking and debating about some shared cultural experience, then it doesn't seem like the future is too bright. Democracy depends on this level of empathy that we have with one another. And that empathy often comes from art. The story that I tried to write this piece a bunch of different ways before I finally settled down on it. One of the ways that it originally began that I had to scrap because it was extremely esoteric, but which I can share with you now.

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