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All Media is Mar-a-Lago Face: The Beauty of Authoritarianism - TEASER

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Gaslit Nation

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4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We need to talk about the "creator economy" and the stylish influencers pushing disinformation and misinformation directly into our feeds. The more glossy you are, the more attention you get–and attention is the new currency. That is the same ethos of the princess-haired women swanning around Mar-a-Lago. It's a deliberate dumbing down of society. When gloss replaces the time-intensive grind of investigative journalism, the autocrats and oligarchs who push this strategy distract and confuse us, and ensure important voices who can't win a Sephora Hunger Games get shut out. 

In this week's bonus show, Gaslit Nation also covers the chilling expansion of America's police state, focusing on the horrifying conditions at the Delaney detention center in New Jersey. Inmates are on hunger strike to demand basic human rights, mirroring the brutal history of political prisoners under Stalin's regime. We must raise our voices, pressure our elected officials (like Governor Mikie Sherrill), and refuse to look away.

Do not let the Mar-a-Lago face creator economy and the attention-hungry gatekeepers confuse and wear you down. Stay grounded in your moral force and amplify the truth.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon and support our independent journalism. Shape the show and raise your voice at the Gaslit Nation Salon Monday at 4 PM Eastern. Look out for exciting announcements this coming Monday with a special sneak peak exclusively for our Patreon supporters. Can't make it? Listen to the recording later only on Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. 

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0:00.0

Dr. Jared Cooney-Horvath, I'm a former teacher turned cognitive neuroscientist who focuses on human learning.

0:05.9

And I do not receive funding, nor have I ever from big tech.

0:09.2

A sad fact our generation has to face is this.

0:12.4

Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.

0:17.1

Since we've been standardizing and measuring cognitive development since the late 1800s, every generation has outperformed their parents, and that's exactly what we want.

0:24.7

We want sharper kids.

0:26.3

And the reason for this largely has been school.

0:28.5

Each generation spends more time in school.

0:30.4

We use school to develop our cognition.

0:32.2

Congratulations.

0:32.9

You see your correlation.

0:34.7

Until Gen Z, Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on

0:40.0

basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to

0:44.9

numeracy, to executive functioning, to even general IQ, even though they go to more school than we

0:50.0

did. So why? What happened? What happened around 2010 that decoupled schooling from cognitive development?

0:56.1

It can't be school. Schools basically look the same. It can't be biology. This hasn't enough time to

1:01.3

change. The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning.

1:07.0

Across 80 countries, as Gene was just saying, if you look at the data once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly.

1:16.3

To the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation less than kids who rarely or never touch tech at school.

1:27.2

And that's across 80 countries.

1:29.0

Bring it home to the U.S. Let's go to the U.S.

1:30.5

We have our NAEP. That's our big data.

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