Do You Think I Got It Right Or Wrong?

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i think that in the post bable world, the average isn't that important. We don't know what the average is. And look, the average person hates all this stuff. So this isn't about the average thi is about the dynamics. Most people are very reasonable. Most people sick and tired of this. I've spoken at many high schools and colleges about the colling te american mine. Now i talk about the prolemse of genzi. Can we get a democratic system in which the middle 80% actually has like 50 % of the voice? That is a possible outcome.

One of the world’s most influential social psychologists, a professor of ethical leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business, and a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors, Jonathan Haidt is the author of The Righteous Mind and, with Greg Lukianoff, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt recently wrote a much-read feature in The Atlantic entitled “After Babel.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt discuss how we can make social media less toxic, what political and technological reforms might help fix the problem, and how we can empower the moderate majority to fight for its values.

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