The Spread of Ideologies Through Social Media

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This chapter explores how certain ideas and ideologies that were once confined to college campuses spread and became popularized through social media platforms. It discusses the role of platforms like Tumblr and websites like Fort Catalog and everydayfeminism.com in promoting concepts of identity synthesis, avoiding offense, and validating each other's identities. Additionally, it highlights the shift from website views to social media networks as the main source of article consumption.

Yascha Mounk and David Brooks discuss the role of character development in building strong liberal societies.

David Brooks is a writer and a columnist at the New York Times. He is the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. His latest book is How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David Brooks discuss how he came to coin the term “bourgeois bohemians” (or “bobos”); whether today’s elite shares any traits with the bobo elite that first succeeded the WASPs; and how we can inspire stronger and deeper social connections between individuals of all backgrounds.

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