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Spotlight: The Social Dilemma

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A new documentary called The Social Dilemma comes out on Netflix today, September 9, 2020. We hope that this film, full of interviews with tech insiders, will be a catalyst and tool for exposing how technology has been distorting our perception of the world, and will help us reach the shared ground we need to solve big problems together.

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0:00.0

Today on your undivided attention, instead of a podcast guest, we would like to tell you about something really exciting.

0:06.0

Netflix just released a new documentary called The Social Dilemma.

0:10.0

The film has been in the works for more than three years and includes appearances from me and from Aisa and our co-founder Randy Fernando,

0:18.0

but what really has us excited is the incredible number of tech insiders that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, they're all there in the film.

0:26.7

What the film discloses clearly from the people who built these systems is how it is warping the collective consciousness of humanity.

0:35.0

When you look outside and you see the madness of shortening attention spans, increasing

0:39.5

irritability, increasing anxiety, more polarization escalating into conflict, and you say, is this just

0:46.1

natural? Is this just where we were headed from the start? Or if you rewind 10 years and you

0:51.6

imagine putting on a pair of outrage and conflict colored glasses.

0:55.6

So everywhere you looked you went to your kitchen, you would see things you should be outraged

0:59.6

about that your spouse left the cups in a different location than when you left it, and you see the

1:04.2

sneeze that someone sneezed onto the refrigerator handle before you walked in.

1:08.9

You know, what would your world be like if you wore those glasses for 10 years. Now imagine that you didn't wear those

1:14.8

glasses but everyone else around you wore these outrage and conflict-colored glasses.

1:20.3

Well that's what this film I think will expose is the way that we've all been wearing these

1:26.8

warped glasses that have totally distorted the way that we make meaning and perceive reality.

1:33.0

One of the most powerful reactions that I've received from the film,

1:36.0

a friend not in Silicon Valley,

1:39.0

she said, I used to think that it really was us versus them.

1:43.4

And after watching the film, she's like,

1:45.2

it's not us versus them.

1:46.3

It is the system which is making us fight

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