Screaming into a Void

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Turn on the news or look at Twitter, and it's likely you'll be bombarded by outrage. Many people have come to believe that the only way to spark change is to incite anger. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite 2019 episode about how outrage is hijacking our conversations, our communities, and our minds.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:04.7	Millions of tweets are posted every day.
0:07.2	Most of them get little attention,
0:09.4	but there is one user whose tweets always make news.
0:13.0	Ding, ding, ding, there's been a post-it tweet.
0:14.8	The president is up and tweeting this morning.
0:17.4	Just tweeted two minutes ago,
0:19.0	yes, he said, I'm extremely pleased to see that CNN
0:22.0	has finally been exposed as fake news and garbage journalism.
0:26.0	It's about time.
0:27.4	Trump tweeted, quote, the United States, has foolishly given Pakistan
0:31.0	more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years,
0:34.2	and they have given us nothing but lies and to see thinking of our leaders.
0:41.2	This is not an episode about Donald Trump.
0:44.2	It's an episode about an emotion that predates him,
0:47.4	but that he has taken to an extreme.
0:50.2	We now hear this emotion in the way we talk about a broad range of topics.
0:54.2	The emotion is outraged.
0:57.8	With the stench of blatant bias and hurt and spikabal,
1:00.2	it's embarrassing to humiliate the American and allow us to this time.
1:05.2	Fish is the way she said it, fish is f-word.
1:08.2	That's not somebody that has the heart of these psychotic Democrats
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