What's that tweet again?

It's a two-year-old had a fatal alligator accident in Disney World, but this woman tweeted,

I'm so finished with white men's entitlement lately that I'm really not sad about a two-year-old

being eaten by a gator because his daddy ignored signs.

And it's like, it's amazing. I mean, it's beautiful. It's actually such a good tweet.

It's been, it's the perfect tweet. It's a perfect tweet. I'm so grateful for that tweet.

Without it, I might have spent six more months thinking the internet was good.

I'm John Favreau. Welcome to Offline.

Hi. Welcome to the very first episode of the show.

You might be wondering, what show? What is happening on my pods? I have America feet.

Well, if you listen to the pod, you know we talk a lot about all the reasons

democracies in danger right now. The Republican Party, Fox News,

Jerry Mandering, the filibuster. But the one I haven't been able to stop thinking about is the

internet. And what being online all the time is doing to our brains, our relationships,

our jobs, the way we make decisions, the way we argue, the way we form our opinions,

even the way we form our identities. I know complaining about the internet isn't exactly new,

but I think it got worse during the Trump years and I think it got much worse during the pandemic

when pretty much the only people we talked to were in our phones.

I used to tell myself that all the extra screen time was just because of the election.

But here I am a year later, still scrolling without a reason,

getting pissed off over dumb tweets, checking Instagram when my friends are right in front of me.

Why is this healthy, productive, fulfilling? It certainly doesn't feel that way.

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