#232 Attention

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bob and Ben catch up to talk about Jonathan Haidt's recent article in the May issue of The Atlantic, "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid," and their take on the problems of social media and the solutions posed by Haidt and others.

This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer

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0:00.0	Hello, just a quick note up front before we get started with the episode that our next Patreon
0:09.6	Trivia Night will be May 11th. That's a Wednesday night at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific
0:16.0	Time. If you guys want to come to a trivia night hosted by me, meet some of your other listeners,
0:20.5	and maybe even win some prizes.
0:22.6	Just go to patreon.com slash the road to now.
0:26.0	If you're already there, thank you.
0:27.9	See you on May 11th.
0:33.1	The Jonathan Haidt article I was very familiar with.
0:36.9	Yeah.
0:38.1	That was... Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was, oh yeah.
0:40.2	Yeah, I read it last, it came out last week.
0:42.4	Yeah.
0:42.6	Week and a half ago.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.2	That has been big news on CNN, MSNBC, and Smarkhanesh.
0:49.0	My three main sources.
0:51.4	That is.
0:51.6	That's funny.
0:52.5	That's the most important article the of like the year
0:55.3	maybe of the decade really i mean i thought it was good i just subscribed to the atlantic and
1:00.4	basically read you don't think you don't think it's important i think he's important i think he's
1:04.4	he summed up this part this the past 20 years i've been sawyer i'm bob crawford and this is the road to now and you are
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