Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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And that puts us in a very tense state.
And very clever people can take advantage of that and manipulate.
to their benefit.
So that I think explains why we feel this tension that we do.
I'd also say it's upstream.
Um, you have polarization happening within societies, especially in Western societies, where there is no monopoly on the truth or news or information.
You have the fragmentation of, let's say, major news sources.
Traditionally you have a few very respected, trusted sources and authorities or figureheads that people would turn to.
We don't have that anymore.
It's now been diluted to the point that it is m almost meaningless.
And so
So you see this social media has contributed to this.
And so with that, these these with these divisions, these schisms in society have made major industrial powers like the United States, like let's say the Europeans, more vulnerable.
to manipulation than ever before.
So now if you're an adversary like Russia or China, Iran, North Korea, you can take advantage of the ability to tap into this polarization and play people off against one another, cause division.
And that allow and that destabilizes democratic societies.
And then that in turn
Enables these countries like Russia and China and others to have more leverage and more influence.
In the developing world.
In the past, it was whoever had the strongest military.
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