How TikTok Ruined Politics (And Your Sex Life)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast
Mark Manson
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
How many f*cks should we give about politics? What’s driving the widening ideological gap between young men and women? And is the world truly and utterly f*cked beyond all recognition?
In this episode, we talk politics without really talking politics. We cover how to stay up-to-date on current events without going insane, what history can teach us about the present, the real downside to TikTok’s invasion of—well, everything—and why there is still reason to hold out hope, even when it seems like the world is going to straight to hell.
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Chapters
01:17 The F*ck of the Week: Politics
16:24 Brilliant or Bullsh*t: Is TikTok Ruining Politics AND Dating?
32:24 Q&A: Is Everything Just F*cked?
Theme song: Icarus Lives by Periphery, used with permission from Periphery.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Drew, I'm so over it. I'm so over the election. I'm so sick of it. I think this is a really useful thing to talk about, especially this year, is how much we should give a fuck about politics? |
| 0:11.2 | That's the fuck of the week. How much should we actually care about all this nonsense that goes on week in, week out, that feels like a soap opera that is on every channel, every podcast, every radio show all the fucking time. |
| 0:26.4 | I kind of just lost it this morning, like I'm my, I usually, I make my morning |
| 0:31.8 | smoothie and I do like some house stuff and I listen to a podcast in the morning. |
| 0:36.7 | It's like just it's not my morning routine but it's one of the things I do in the morning and every podcast I listen to this morning had an |
| 0:45.8 | election episode even the non-political ones even the non-political ones please like |
| 0:50.0 | the business ones yeah the finance ones all of them and and now I'm here making an election |
| 0:57.4 | episode I've officially become what I hate. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | It's the subtle art of not giving a fuck podcast |
| 1:07.0 | with your host Mark Manson. |
| 1:10.0 | But seriously, I do want to get into, you know, how much does this actually matter? |
| 1:17.3 | How much is it worth caring about? |
| 1:19.7 | I think you and I were old enough now. |
| 1:22.9 | We've been through many election cycles. |
| 1:24.7 | We've been through many, you know, quote-unquote, |
| 1:28.2 | seismic shifts in the American polity. |
| 1:31.7 | Like, how much has it really mattered? I I don't know I'd like to discuss that today cool so yeah well I mean how much should we give a fuck about I'm in politics election like big elections elections in other countries |
| 1:44.5 | sure politics in general how much do you think |
| 1:47.2 | we should give a fuck about it |
| 1:48.7 | does it differ for everyone |
| 1:50.5 | so clearly we should give some fucks, right? Like you can't just pretend nothing's happened. |
| 1:55.5 | Right, like ultimately you know if you are blessed enough to live in a democracy then it is part of our |
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