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On Social Media and Self Delusion (with Jia Tolentino)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Social Media Is Not New, It's Just the Platform

"I do think that the biggest and most change making industries in the world have been run on the economic model of treating the human self as like the raw material that you would destroy with a, you know, mining ore," he says. "Because it's new, it's worth being as negative about as possible." He thinks there could be a pushback akin to the environmental movement in the 70s. 'It deserves all of that negativity and more if there's ever any hope of getting out of it'

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