Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode, Psychology and Plugged. Thanks, as always, to all of our listeners and followers.

I thought last week's episode was really good with Dr. Abrams in his approach to anger.

And it kind of got me thinking. And nothing being to like gossip or tabloid magazine,

but I was reading a snippet article about the Golden Globes, which were last week. And they

talked about all the stuff that was kind of caught off camera.

Mistakes that celebrities made.

And they reference kind of like how one mishap almost obliterates or eradicates someone's public view or perception,

career, persona. And I thought it would kind of just, not necessarily talk about anger,

but basically about, stop being so offended.

And I'm not going to get into a cultural, political, that kind of, you know, dynamic.

But I think I agreed with the, you know, the brief article that as a society,

I think we have become so hyper-focused on people's transgressions of doing this,

or not doing this, of saying this, of not saying this,

and it overshadows the totality

of individuals.

And I think people are sometimes hyper-focused on almost looking for someone else to commit some micro-transgression,

and they become defined by that.

And, you know, none of us are perfect by any means.

And this stuff gets compounded by, it's like the telephone game.

It gets compounded by misinformation, which is a dangerous thing.

But I'm going to talk about this from more from a psychological perspective, because,

you know, the very topic of, like, offense, I think it tends to activate

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