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The Permaweird with Venkatesh Rao

Interdependence

CHAPTER

The History of Weird Times

The internet has connected all of us in the most intimate ways possible on such a large social scale. I think it's because we've gotten used to not expecting to have canned default responses available for everything. Donald Trump was not the first weird populist leader to come up and he won't be the last, but he was the first to whom we had like this kind of like visceral global connected response with video and Twitter.

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