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🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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If you've ever yelled at someone on social media about, say, cancel culture or mask-wearing, then you are a soldier in the culture wars - those everyday battles for dominance between conflicting values. The acclaimed writer and podcaster Jon Ronson has seen friends swallowed up in them to the extent that it's ruined their lives. Jon was curious to learn how things fell apart, and so he went back into the history of the culture wars to find some of the origin stories: the pebbles thrown in the pond, creating the ripples that led us to where we are today. He had no idea what he’d find, but he's uncovered some extraordinary people and the strangest, yet most consequential tales.
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0:27.8 | podcast we've got for BBC Radio 4. |
0:40.0 | It's called Things Fell Apart. |
0:45.0 | For the past few years I've watched as friends tear themselves apart |
0:49.0 | because of their over-obcession with the Culture Wars, And by culture wars I mean almost everything that people |
0:56.2 | yell at each other about on social media. |
0:59.2 | We want to take mass off our children. That should be our choice. You are a white privileged male who has |
1:05.0 | no. I can't help what I have. I was born like this. I'm not saying that people |
1:11.7 | should not be allowed to go through that procedure. |
1:15.0 | What I'm saying is it doesn't make them a woman. |
1:16.6 | It happens to be an opinion. |
1:19.0 | These wars can consume our lives. |
1:22.1 | I was curious to learn how things fell apart and so I decided to go back |
1:26.5 | in history and find the origin stories, the pebbles thrown in the pond, creating the ripples. I had no idea how surprising, how |
1:36.4 | consequential the stories would turn out to be. Like, how did a boy's dream of making it in Hollywood in the 1970s lead to a campaign of |
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