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356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson

The Fifth Column

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Social Media

"Cognitive dissonance has sort of followed me. So in episode four of Things Fell Apart, I talk about this woman who was sentenced to 47 years in jail for crimes that have happened," he says. "The flame burns hot when we think we're behaving in a moral cause, we behave more violently"

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