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Technology as Mammon, with special guest Andy Crouch

Good Faith

Is Social Media a Determinant Factor in Our Political and Cultural Malaises?

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i am increasingly believing there is something very, very distorting and damaging about social media. I think most of these maladies would have come to us even if we hadn't had screens. There's the data compression, which is the general media problem raised to an absurd extent. And also then the very, very limited ways you can signal back your response, o the like button. The algar ithm rewards us at our worst - that doesn't even capture us at our best. We've injested the synaptic gap between stimulus and response into a system that operates all humanity at their least impulsive and contemplative. That's especially corrosive in my own use so on twitteri will

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