Ep 143 | How Social Media Could Cause America's COLLAPSE | Jonathan Haidt | The Glenn Beck Podcast

The Glenn Beck Program

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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If Winston Churchill were alive today, would he get canceled? Jonathan Haidt can tell you, but his answer is not exactly comforting. Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at NYU who has devoted his career to the study of morality. But while he’s always been an optimist, he’s noticed some concerning changes since the rise of social media. Now, he argues, social media is not just out of control, it could cause the collapse of America. It’s the subject of Haidt’s recent article for the Atlantic, “After Babel: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.” On this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Glenn and Haidt discuss whether America just experienced a second Tower of Babel, why social media has fueled our political divide and devastated Gen Z, and what we must do to reverse course: “We need a Geneva Convention for the culture wars.” This Week’s Sponsors: Built Bars are made with real chocolate, high in protein and low in calories and carbs, and taste exactly like a candy bar. Go to https://BuiltBar.com and use promo code “BECK15” to save 15% off your next order. Try the Sweatblock deodorant stick for 20% off at sweatblock.com with promo code “Beck,” or on Amazon. The ministry of Pre-Born and Blaze Media are partnering to help rescue 50,000 babies from abortion in 2022! Will you help rescue babies’ lives? To donate, go to https://Preborn.com/glenn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:07.0	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,
0:13.0	it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest.
0:17.0	For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.
0:24.0	Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:30.0	Social media is terrorizing democracy. These platforms have damaged our trust, degraded our belief in institutions and eradicated our shared stories.
0:41.0	They are undermining the principles that raised America to the heights of civilization.
0:48.0	Today's guest recently tackled this in a in a new way with reality. It was reality based an in-depth feature story for the Atlantic.
0:59.0	It was titled After Babel. Why the past ten years of American life have been uniquely stupid.
1:06.0	In it he uses the biblical story of the Tower of Babel as a metaphor for the fractured country we now inhabit.
1:13.0	He argues that we live in a post-babel era and that social media is largely causing our collapse.
1:21.0	He's a social psychologist and a professor at the New York University. He studies emotion, morality and politics.
1:29.0	In his 2008 TED talk about the moral roots of liberals and conservatives, after that went wild, he turned that TED talk into a book called The Righteous Mind,
1:41.0	which examines how politics and religion divide good people.
1:46.0	That book was so insightful I made it required reading for my entire Blaze media team.
1:52.0	In 2018 he also co-authored the National Best Seller, The Coddling of the American Mind, a smart common sense book about the major social distortions that are ruining college campuses and creating a generation of dysfunctional Americans.
2:09.0	He is a reasonable man and he has become kind of a dinosaur in a way.
2:16.0	I mean he's not that he's old, it's just nobody says these things anymore.
2:22.0	And he is troubled by the growing inability of Americans to live, work and cooperate across party lines.
2:29.0	To fight against this trend, he founded the Hetrodox Academy, a nonpartisan, non-profit devoted to protecting diversity of thought on college campuses, what a concept.
2:41.0	The idea that great minds don't always think alike, which I think should be the tagline of this podcast.
2:49.0	Today, welcome my guest Jonathan Height.
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