The Dangers of Social Media

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When we were living in these tribes, they think that human language evolved in order to spread gossip and because gossip helps us cooperate with each other. But what was happening in social media is that as soon as you open Twitter, it is, you are awash with moral outrage. And so there's almost no escape from this kind of moral outrage. So the values that I thought defined my team, which is the left-wing team, are being sort of trampled on," he says.

Will Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. Will takes us on a journey through the history of 'self'. He explains how early human societies are responsible for much of how we live in the modern-day world. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer at will blow your mind.

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