Dr. Jill Lepore
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Like, it's just kind of a sad, a sad moment.
I don't think there's anybody, I don't know, there's probably like some
wretched human beings out there really excited to do deep fakes and you know win elections that way but i think like most people in politics are not loving this moment we have to pause here for another quick break we'll be back in just a minute
It's helpful to remember that that's not an invention of the internet or the personal computer era, or certainly not of the artificial intelligence era.
This is a great book by my colleague, Liz Cohen, Consumers Republic, that argues that the kind of consumer replaced the citizen.
as the individual of entity of consequence in the united states you know in the 1950s in the post-war era with the you know peacetime conversion of wartime factories so that like really consumption was what was going to save the country and advance the country's interests and american growth and american strength was associated with consumerism and that we've
Like my lifetime, that's been the way that we live.
That's not where that country was founded.
And that's also not inevitable, right?
But the system that you're describing of the targeted advertising, which is really effectively what the internet currently is, I actually don't think that's going to last.
But what it currently is, we're not acting online anymore.
Primarily as citizens, certainly I don't feel that I am.
I'm chiefly acting online as a consumer.
And I remember the day that I noticed that.
I was like...
2000, I had a baby and Google started sending me ads for breast pumps.
And I was like, fuck this.
Like, like you remember when you were outraged by that and you're like, I hate that they know that I had a baby.
How do they, that makes me mad.
I didn't tell them that.
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