Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Arthur Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But you're not in a hot, hedonic state.
On the contrary, it'd be terrible if you're just yelling the whole time.
I mean, there are people who try to do that in media, but it would be a less effective medium if you were doing that.
But there are a lot of people who just can't feel anything.
They're not feeling anything.
They're completely numb.
And so they get involved in forms of very, very performative activism because it makes them feel alive, maybe for the first time in a long time.
And it's a really an extraordinary thing.
I mean, they're spending their time scrolling and dating online, and it's just incredibly numbing behaviors.
They kind of wiped out all sense of boredom, but their lives are grindingly boring.
And so the result of it is they want to feel something, maybe for the first time in a long time, is what it comes down to.
The second problem is that a lot of young people today have been effectively conscripted into a culture war by baby boomers, and they've been made to understand that their identity is in a form of grievance.
And this is very common.
This is the best way to manipulate people is to create a victim identity.
That's identity politics.
But the most single toxic kind of identity that you can have is that I'm a victim.
Why is it toxic?
It's toxic because you're looking in the mirror and saying, I'm aggrieved.
I don't know who I am if I'm not feeling bad.
You know, and this is the exact antithesis of Christianity or any good, serious, nutritious religion, which is to look in the mirror and say, I'm a beloved child of God.
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