Ben Sasse

That's gonna be extraordinary.

It's gonna be a transformation of the way economics has worked for human history past.

Economics was a discipline about scarcity.

Economics is gonna become a discipline about ubiquitous abundance.

or your people who agree to outsource your attention and affections to somebody else's algorithm, that's hell.

Who would have ever thought that we'd be living in a sex collapse?

Less premarital sex, less extramarital sex, less marital sex, because people are so addicted to not just pornography proper, but just digital distraction from bodily goodness.

That's weird.

And I think that the digital revolution that we're going to live through is going to bring all of that at faster speed for a small number of people with lots of intentionality, lots of habits and thick communities of accountability and Sabbaths.

These tools are going to probably be pretty great for the majority of people.

I think they're going to be disastrous.

communities that can do shared deferred gratification that can say self-discipline, self-restraint, self-control are the only antidotes to other constraint, other discipline and others control.

And so I think we want to think very, very intentionally about our affections.

What are your loves?

we have to think deeply about rank ordered loves.

And I don't think we do that right now.

And I think our, our temptation to allow these tools to algorithmically tempt me into an eternal now, now, now, now, now, now slot machine of dopamine hits super dangerous.

We have been for 150 years tempted toward generational segregation, which loses wisdom.

I, I, in my, uh,

Exactly.