Screaming into a Void

尖叫到虚空中

Hidden Brain

社会科学

2020-12-08

40 分钟
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Turn on the news or look at Twitter, and it's likely you'll be bombarded by outrage. Many people have come to believe that the only way to spark change is to incite anger. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite 2019 episode about how outrage is hijacking our conversations, our communities, and our minds.
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  • This is hidden brain.

  • I'm Shankar Vedanta.

  • Millions of tweets are posted every day.

  • Most of them get little attention.

  • But there is one user whose tweets always make news.

  • Ding, ding, ding.

  • There's been a POTUS tweet.

  • The president is up and tweeting this morning.

  • He just tweeted two minutes ago this.

  • He said, I'm extremely pleased to see that CNN has finally been exposed as fake news and garbage journalism.

  • It's about time.

  • Trump tweeted, quote, the United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.

  • This is not an episode about Donald Trump.

  • It's an episode about an emotion that predates him, but that he has taken to an extreme.

  • We now hear this emotion in the way we talk about a broad range of topics.

  • The emotion is outrageous, with a stench.

  • Of blatant bias and partnership surrounding the.

  • Russia program, embarrassing by the dismilating Americans.

  • And allow vicious, the way she said.

  • It, vicious f word.