Teenage Wasteland

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Peachy Keenan joins the editors to discuss the tweet that broke the internet: an anecdote about the effects of racial preferences in admission turned into a Rorschach test and a celebration parallax. It’s not happening, and it’s good that it is! Then, a close reading of the new TikTok filter that confronts users with a vision of their younger selves, forcing many of them to confront the reality of passing time and human mortality. Plus: our editors pick their favorite pieces from the site this week.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:03.0	We're laughing about all this
0:04.2	and I found it all very hilarious,
0:06.2	but there's a real tragic, silent story here,
0:10.8	which it was told in the number of DMs I got
0:14.0	from people who are actually suffering
0:16.4	real world consequences.
0:18.2	Kids who just busted their ass,
0:20.4	like worked so hard, massive APs,
0:23.0	took on huge sports careers and all this stuff.
0:26.4	And they just got literally shut out.
0:28.0	And I just got, I mean, I put,
0:29.5	there's a sample of the DMs in my piece,
0:31.5	but I just got, I mean, I got over 100.
0:34.6	And multiple, I got emails from people
0:37.3	who found my email on sub-stack.
0:38.7	I mean, just so many stories.
0:40.6	And each one, you know, I can't fact check any of them.
0:43.6	Maybe they're all liars, Jamal, you know?
0:46.4	But like, that to me is the proof that, you know,
0:49.2	all this is creating is like,
0:50.8	de-presentment on that side.
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