I have this debate quite a bit about where the culture war actually started.

And a lot of people say it started in universities.

I think the concepts and ideas that eventually became postmodernist, the postmodernist political

faction certainly existed in universities to a great degree, perhaps more so than many other

ideologies.

But I believe that, as I've often argued, social media algorithms were what launched this

into orbit, creating the political conflict we see today.

And the simple version of it is that it's rooted in what is safe for advertisers, what is

socially acceptable, ultimately

creating this massive wave almost overnight of cancel culture.

And we may be recovering from it to a certain degree now with Shane Gillis hosting SNL,

with more and more comedians feeling comfortable saying very offensive things.

We've started to realize exactly what this is

and become more resilient to it. And maybe, maybe that'll change. Or maybe, I don't know,

with the way universities are cranking out new humans ready to join the workforce, it may actually

create these ideas. But I'll just give you the real quick version before we jump into the,

you know, and all the other meat and potatoes here. Universities were bringing in young people influenced by social media.

And the customer is always right. So when the professor, professors tried pushing back,

they got fired. They lost their jobs. They were put at risk. So they all started falling in line.

So I really do think social media algorithms were the big player in this, but I could be wrong.

So we're going to start off.

We have a lot of things to talk about.

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