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The Constitution, Unplugged: Matt Taibbi on DarkHorse

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INSIGHT

Personalized Plato's Cave

  • Social media acts as a personalized Plato's cave, reflecting our biases and prejudices back to us.
  • It magnifies our fears and anxieties, creating a sense of constant threat.
  • This environment cultivates timidity and undermines our willingness to defend ourselves and our values.
  • This manipulation erodes self-reliance and courage, ultimately weakening the population.
  • This effect is described as "deeply un-American," contrasting with a past era of greater resilience.
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