Dr. Todd Rose

And then everybody around him

wants power and wants to be close to it, so they don't want to say, you're buck naked, right?

And then the king's prancing around, going outside.

Naked.

All the crowds line up.

They're cheering because no one wants to say it.

And then one little kid is like, why are you naked?

The innocence of the child to be just asked the obvious question, and then the illusion shatters.

So obviously, this has been a problem in humanity for a very long time.

What's interesting is,

Up until just recently, the number of illusions, collective illusions that have harmed us as a society were pretty small.

But you put it into the social media age.

And it's just exploded to the point where now name anything that matters in life.

It's a coin toss whether or not you're just wrong about what your community believes now.

Well, let's hit on those, but-

When we think about how is it that we can end up being so wrong about the groups that matter so much to us?

Like, it's kind of weird that that would be true, right?

Let me show you, like, two things.

One, how they happen in day-to-day life without anybody trying to manipulate you.

And then let's talk about what social media does at the societal level.