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Stewart Brand, Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History

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Do You Find That Happening Worldwide?

My kids grew up without TV and on the internet and they've retreated from social media. Do you find that happening worldwide? In other words, because of the fact that outrage seems to be the single emotional tone that people just get tired of it and decide, I don't really want it anymore. So Facebook can turn things up and down and we do have a direct effect. There is no sign of the mental health crisis of dating. It just keeps going up and up and up. COVID made things worse, but it was a trend that was already unbelievable before COVID.

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