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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And if we've eradicated that, we've broken the brains of young people because of how technology has changed our lives, how culture, the culture that everything has a complicated solution,
The culture of technology and engineering, there's an app for that.
All that does is it ruins mystery.
And the ultimate mystery, of course, is love.
And so if you're freaking people out in activism, turning the genders against each other systematically, if you're making it harder for people to meet, if you're taking out all the joy from the way that they meet because they're meeting on apps, for example, if you're making it such that they don't even know how to date in real life, guess what you're going to get?
a baby bust, you're gonna get a love depression, which is exactly what we have.
That's fair, but really the biggest, it's true that there's been a kind of a climatic change in happiness since about 1990.
But then you have the storms, the hurricanes.
The weather of happiness has been a lot more severe, and that's been since 2008, largely.
Yeah, and at the beginning of that, when I saw the biggest downdraft in happiness in my data, I thought it was the financial crisis.
Nuh-uh.
That was the introduction of the smartphone, is what that was.
And then the introduction of apps on the smartphone, and then the introduction of dating apps.
I'm not against dating apps.
That's the way that the world is gonna work.
I do scientific advice to dating apps.
as a matter of fact, because I want them to be better because they're not going to go away.
And the way that you do that is by adding the human element into the algorithm, adding the right hemisphere into the left hemisphere, and then you can actually make them productive.
We learn how to use the machines.
By the way, we're going to figure this out.
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