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Ep 186: What Have We Done With Our Independence?

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Social Media

Social media raises the distinction between public and private, he says. It's easier to incence bring down reputations on social media because all unito and and innocence create that platform for a kind of pervuasive cynicism. The most corrupting thing in democracy is desire for agglomeration - if what i'm after is more attention, then i have to say things I might be doing it for almost ten years. But you can actually appear in public before you've even seen them? Right? And ti's a good reason liberalism insisted on social media?"

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