A Culture of Fear, Social Media Toxicity, and America's Descent Into Stupidity, with Jonathan Haidt | Ep. 327

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by social psychologist and "The Coddling of the American Mind" co-author Jonathan Haidt to talk about how social media is making us worse as a democracy, our culture's inability to even speak the same language or share the same overall truths, the way the American conversation got stupid over just 10 years, democracy versus dictatorship, how social media destroys the fabric of our society, the lack of a common shared story in America, how social media makes kids afraid to make mistakes, the rise of tribalism at the extremes (but not in the middle), how social media evolved into a platform for toxicity and addiction, the unlimited "dart guns" to shame via social media, how a culture of fear has led to to a chilling of speech and humor, what happens if we fight cancel culture with more cancel culture, the negative partisanship that helped lead to Trump's presidency, how social media leads to anxiety and thoughts of suicide, how we can reverse the negative trends in our society, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.0	Here's the question for you on a Monday morning.
0:17.5	Are we living through a uniquely stupid time in American history?
0:22.9	Have you woken up recently and said to yourself, how hell did we get like this?
0:28.0	Well, what happened to the America of 10 years ago?
0:32.0	What's going on?
0:33.0	Why can't we talk to each other?
0:34.0	Why does everyone hate each other?
0:36.0	Why is there no more truth?
0:38.0	Well, we've got some answers for you today.
0:40.0	And they're great.
0:41.0	They're so inside of I really enjoy preparing for today's interview.
0:44.0	Here with us today to explain our societal lapse in intelligence among other problems
0:49.0	is social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, Jonathan Height.
0:55.0	Jonathan is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers, the righteous mind,
0:59.0	why good people are divided by politics and religion, and the absolutely brilliant
1:04.0	and just game changing, the coddling of the American mind, which he co-wrote with Greg Luke-Lukienov,
1:11.0	who's also been on the show earlier talking about what's happening on universities
1:16.0	and his work to sort of document it and fight for free speech.
1:20.0	Now, Jonathan's latest Atlantic column from April is called Why the Past 10 Years of America?
1:24.0	The past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid and mandated
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