Social Media: The Ruin of Us All

Trent and Joel consider the deleterious impact of social media on individuals and culture.  The backdrop is a recent article by Thom Hartmann, "Is Social Media This Generation's Heroin?" in which Hartmann examines the drug-like effects of social media.  They consider the pro's and con's of social media. Joel describes the theory of the triune brain and how our survival instinct's hyper-sensitivity to threats is being hijacked by social media algorithms.

They agree that the public should be made more aware of social media algorithms, since they are so powerfully at work in our society.  Trent talks about the differences between today's social landscape and times past when face-to-face contact entailed immediate consequences for cruel behavior.