I can't say often enough how on the right and the left you have a whole bunch of politicians

who are more concerned about followers than constituents.

Their constituents are the people who they are supposed to answer to, but they answer to their followers.

Many of whom don't live in their district have no concern beyond, you know, signaling their tribal loyalty online.

And this has been bad, this has been very bad for democracy.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

When we talk about how the digital world has transformed our lives.

It is tempting to think about the big issues,

to think about how artificial intelligence will transform the world.

To talk about whether or not social media use has driven up suicide among teenage girls. But I think that there is just

this important set of questions, which is a little bit less dramatic. How has all of our life

been transformed by these digital technologies? Have we become less likely to have deep real-life relationships?

Is there a real decline in the number of social occasions that people organize,

as some data suggests?

How are social norms changing to, on one hand, normalize things like Onlyfans?

And on the other hand,

will have a huge social opprobrium on people who have violated some important, but

broadly breached social norms like fidelity within a marriage when you think about the

recent viral clip from a couple cuddling at a call play concept.

Well, to help us think through all of these questions, I invited onto a podcast, Christine Rosen.

Christine is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,

as well as a fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,

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