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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there, it's Nora McEnerney and this is the Terrible Reading Club, which I like |
0:11.2 | to refer to as great books for terrible times. |
0:15.0 | And part of what's terrible sometimes is how easy it is for people to hate each other |
0:22.4 | and how hard it is for people to talk to each other in meaningful ways when we disagree. |
0:29.2 | And while it's certainly not a phenomenon that's brand new, the internet certainly has |
0:33.4 | made it easier for us to voice our dislike for people in ways that are not always helpful |
0:39.9 | or productive. |
0:42.2 | Dylan Marin is the author of the book Conversations with People Who Hate Me. |
0:46.9 | A book that grew out of his podcast of the same name is a book about why we are, how |
0:52.2 | we are, and how we could change, how we could engage in ways that are meaningful and potentially |
0:57.6 | even transformative. |
1:00.4 | I loved this book because I needed it. |
1:04.2 | I have been a person who just gets online and is like, oh, I mean, tell you something |
1:10.8 | buddy, and I've also been on the receiving end of it and really, it never feels great |
1:15.6 | for anyone involved. |
1:18.1 | But Dylan's the person who wrote the literal book on this. |
1:21.4 | So let's hear from him. |
1:28.2 | I want you to tell me about the game of the internet and when you first started to play |
1:34.1 | it. |
1:35.1 | The game of the internet, I don't think I realized that I was playing the game of the |
1:42.5 | internet for a while. |
1:44.0 | I think in my early days, I definitely thought that the internet was this gift for all of |
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