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Live From the Comedy Cellar: Comedy, Free Speech, and Why the Last 10 Years of American Life Have Been So Uniquely Stupid with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott

The Psychology Podcast

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What's the Turning Point?

CNN's John Sutter asked the panelists to explain why social media has become such a divisiveness. Panelist Jonathan Mann: We thought in 2011, like, wow, this is going to be democracy here on end, you know, liberal democracy won. But when things go hyper viral, that's when it changes and we all are in danger all the time of someone saying something about us. There's no bottom. That's when it's no longer playful. And I also think it's been a whole night. Great point Jonathan. The Righteous Mind was on how we evolved to be tribal and that explains a lot about our religiosity...

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