Arthur Brooks

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TRIGGERnometry · Why Crazy Activism is Taking Over the West — Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

Really?

I love being on tour.

I started going on tour when I was 19 because I was a professional classical musician all the way through my 20s.

And I started going on chamber music tours.

I toured for a couple of years with Charlie Bird, who is a bossa nova guitar player.

And I love tour.

I love the touring life.

It's just the best.

And it's not a well-balanced, healthy life, which means that married life and family life actually saved me.

But left to my devices, I would be out seven days a week.

Well, one answer, which is an incomplete answer, is that it's performative.

Okay.

But it's not performative to others.

It's performative to yourself.

The meaning comes from showing that you care about something enough to be angry about it, to put yourself into a hot hedonic state, to feel intense levels of negative emotionality.

It just shows that you can actually feel something.

for Pete's sake.

You're doing the show.

Really, really good.

Really good.

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