EP 32 Are Social Online Platforms Helping?

We start out this episode asking if the effects on people of social online platforms might actually end up a helpful catalyst in the transition from a suicidal society, on the brink of extinction, to something new. We talk about how the effects of the platforms are accentuating separation, disconnection, and fuling adversarial dynamics. Thus, they are bringing light to some underlying problems in societal dynamics. A past solution has been to strengthen authority and impose a ...