I just want to do a series of examples.

So maybe we can go back and forth because we both have a lot of examples about how this works.

Let me just start with a simple one, which is, listener, think about your own way that you became politicized.

Let's say you're very interested in the left, as many current affairs listeners are.

And you probably have some lefty friends in real life.

And just think about how leftiness works in your real life with your friends. So let me tell you

mine. Like, I got into it because my family, which is a social network, like, taught me about it.

Then I, like, met people at school,

and then we all, like, talked a lot and we reinforced each other in how we did it. And then,

like, professors I got connected to reinforced in this. And then I started listening to media

that was recommended by either those professors or those friends. And that creates, like,

a parasycial link. Parassocial relations is, like, relationship to a media figure. Like, that creates like a parasocial link. Parassocial

relations is like relationship to a media figure, like you're having a parissocial relationship

with me right now, listener. And then, you know, you get on Twitter and you start following people.

That's another kind of pseudo-parassocial link. And then you like meet in real life with someone

to work on stuff. and that's a connection.

And that's how like your politics is partially formed.

All of those are moments where you're kind of embedded in either social networks or

parasycial kind of audiences that led you to believe something.

It wasn't that like one day you got word that this is your

essence based on your individual attributes and this is what you should believe. That's why you

and someone a lot like you, you probably have examples of this, have very different political

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