Chris Hayes
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But it's very different if you've insulted or hurt someone, just a total stranger who's saying mean things to you or you've disappointed them or they're angry at you. That comes into you psychologically indistinguishably. From it coming from kin or lover or friend.
But it's very different if you've insulted or hurt someone, just a total stranger who's saying mean things to you or you've disappointed them or they're angry at you. That comes into you psychologically indistinguishably. From it coming from kin or lover or friend.
But it's very different if you've insulted or hurt someone, just a total stranger who's saying mean things to you or you've disappointed them or they're angry at you. That comes into you psychologically indistinguishably. From it coming from kin or lover or friend.
Truly. There's a kind of clash here between the data set we're trained on, if you will. Right. And what we're encountering. And the reason, again, this is a place that I really know, right? I... didn't used to have people come up to me on the street, and then I became famous enough that people did.
Truly. There's a kind of clash here between the data set we're trained on, if you will. Right. And what we're encountering. And the reason, again, this is a place that I really know, right? I... didn't used to have people come up to me on the street, and then I became famous enough that people did.
Truly. There's a kind of clash here between the data set we're trained on, if you will. Right. And what we're encountering. And the reason, again, this is a place that I really know, right? I... didn't used to have people come up to me on the street, and then I became famous enough that people did.
And I've experienced all the ways that that's strange and alienating, and I've given a lot of thought, partly as a kind of full-time psychological undertaking so that I don't go crazy, because I do think it's kind of distorting and madness-inducing in its own way. And what we've done is basically democratized the madness-inducing aspects of celebrity for the entire society.
And I've experienced all the ways that that's strange and alienating, and I've given a lot of thought, partly as a kind of full-time psychological undertaking so that I don't go crazy, because I do think it's kind of distorting and madness-inducing in its own way. And what we've done is basically democratized the madness-inducing aspects of celebrity for the entire society.
And I've experienced all the ways that that's strange and alienating, and I've given a lot of thought, partly as a kind of full-time psychological undertaking so that I don't go crazy, because I do think it's kind of distorting and madness-inducing in its own way. And what we've done is basically democratized the madness-inducing aspects of celebrity for the entire society.
for every teenager with a phone, now can be driven nuts in precisely the way that we have watched generations of celebrities and stars go crazy.
for every teenager with a phone, now can be driven nuts in precisely the way that we have watched generations of celebrities and stars go crazy.
for every teenager with a phone, now can be driven nuts in precisely the way that we have watched generations of celebrities and stars go crazy.
The social media combination of mass fame and mass surveillance increasingly channels our most basic impulses toward loving and being loved, caring for and being cared for, getting our friends to laugh at our jokes, into the project of impressing strangers.
The social media combination of mass fame and mass surveillance increasingly channels our most basic impulses toward loving and being loved, caring for and being cared for, getting our friends to laugh at our jokes, into the project of impressing strangers.
The social media combination of mass fame and mass surveillance increasingly channels our most basic impulses toward loving and being loved, caring for and being cared for, getting our friends to laugh at our jokes, into the project of impressing strangers.
A project that cannot, by definition, sate our desires, but feels close enough to real human connection that we cannot but pursue it in ever more compulsive ways.
A project that cannot, by definition, sate our desires, but feels close enough to real human connection that we cannot but pursue it in ever more compulsive ways.