E233. Thomas de Zengotita Thinks We're Mainlining Flattery

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Mediated Series - Part 6: Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It , became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter. In Part 6, Bridget and Thomas discuss the implications of technological advances and that the important thing to realize is that at the end of the day it isn’t the technology itself, it’s the way that it forces us into a whole new set of social situations that didn’t used to exist. They explore how hard it is to get people to pay attention to technological advancements when they’re concerned with social and ethical ones, people collaborating in their own disintegration by yielding to the social pressures that get generated by the technology, the way it alters our social arrangements, making the thing without stopping to think whether or not you should. They also cover the history of suicide, how the instinctive need for acknowledgment and attention that we’re all born with has been hijacked by the media environment, wanting to feel like you have authority, audience capture, and the Bill Clinton scandal and shift it signaled regarding shame in our society. Sponsor Links: - I've Had It Podcast - https://bit.ly/WiW-IveHadIt

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0:00.0	This week, we continue our series on the book mediated with author Thomas DeZango Tita.
0:06.2	I don't know the history of suicide. Have people always been killing themselves?
0:11.6	My guess is yes, they've always killed themselves, but there's always been kind of larger reasons for it than your own misery, like martyrdom.
0:22.7	This idea of, you know, just on my personal distress is causing me to end my life.
0:33.8	I don't think that you'd find a lot of that. Why do they take out all these other people along with themselves?
0:41.5	It's precisely because they are demanding the attention they've been longing for and lacking.
0:50.0	This is Watkins, welcome with Bridget Pettasy, I'm Bridget Pettasy, and you are welcome.
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1:36.7	All right, I'm back with Thomas DeZango Tita, my so good to see you. I feel like it's been a while.
1:43.7	Good to see you, Bridget. It's all good to talk to you because you really get this bloke, which is...
1:50.8	This bloke is like the gap between them.
1:52.3	Oh, my poor, relaxing and easy for me to talk with someone.
1:56.1	I swear every time I'm always prepared for our interviews by reading and I'll take notes and then
2:01.8	I'll just give the book again before we get going and it's like something new jumps out of me every time.
2:10.3	It's like a religious text.
2:12.5	Right. Well, this time you saw busy, busy, busy because you're so busy, busy, busy, right?
2:17.2	I know, but I actually wanted... I was reading the transcript from our last interview and there were a couple
2:22.9	I don't like to leave thread-tanging and there were a couple of things from the identity politics
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