0:00.0	Oh yes, hello my friends, welcome back.
0:04.5	If one thing has defined the discussion and discourse in 2020, it has been outrage.
0:10.4	From zero to 100 real quick with every single conversation.
0:16.1	No subtlety or nuance in what's being said, no good will or faith in the other person's
0:22.4	side, in having any truth or justification at all, it's just cancel them, delete them
0:28.3	from the world, call them a bigot as fast as you can.
0:31.6	And that gets you the most virtue points from other people on the internet that you've
0:36.2	never met.
0:37.5	Ashley Dotty-Charles is a BBC radio and extra presenter and her most recent book, Outrage
0:44.0	discusses why everyone is shouting and no one is talking.
0:48.6	Given the way that 2020's gone and the things that you will have seen on the internet, I think
0:54.0	this is a topic which we're revisiting an awful lot.
0:57.4	And rightly so, right?
0:58.9	The only two ways that we can communicate are either by speaking to each other or fighting.
1:04.3	That's it.
1:05.3	That's all you've got.
1:06.3	You can use words or you can use fists and I would much sooner try and get us to go
1:09.8	back to using the art of words a little bit more effectively.
1:13.9	In other news, this Monday is the long awaited James Smith episode on Modern Wisdom.
1:20.4	It was a lot of fun and many of you have been waiting and hassling and DMing me for
1:26.4	when this one's going to come out and it's going to be this Monday.
1:29.4	So set your reminders, make sure that you're tuning for that.
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