Chase Hughes

What's the motivation for that?

I think the...

Just the digital media.

If you think about what is the number one fear of human beings, like every psychology class talks about it, it's the public speaking.

But it's never public speaking.

I don't want to be judged.

I don't want to be ostracized because in our brain, that's 200,000 years old.

Getting kicked out of a tribe means I'm dead.

I'm not going to have sex, I won't have babies, and I'm going to die.

It's a mortal fear of dying.

But if you go back to the 1980s, if I did something stupid in high school or even as an adult—

I have to worry about 30 or 40 people judging me and maybe, you know, really kind of kicking me out of a social group.

And now with social media, you've got to worry about 5 or 10 million.

So the consequences of doing something wrong are unbelievably exponentially increased, which has made us a whole different society, which we could get into.

And this is the origin of this pandemic of loneliness that we're in right now, where everybody will agree that we're in pandemic levels of loneliness and nobody, you don't hear anyone saying, I'm lonely.

Which is a deeper root of this exact problem.

What's happening then?

You ever seen a French philosopher, this guy named Sartre?

I've read a little bit of his stuff, but just single quotes.

He had this play.