Dr. Todd Rose
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And so on almost everything, especially when you're in those formative years, what do I believe?
Who am I?
What do I aspire to?
They're being shaped by illusions in ways that none of us have ever really experienced.
Those of us that at least remember a time when there wasn't social media.
And again, I'm not saying social media is bad.
It's got a lot of upside.
But like any technology, there's always a downside.
And if you don't recognize the downside, you're going to live it.
That's right.
And by the way, when everyone starts doing that and starts conforming, groups lose their vitality.
Groups lose their purpose, right?
The purpose of a group is not blind conformity.
It's that we're better together.
It's that we can cooperate.
It's that we can exchange ideas, right?
That I can learn from you and be like, maybe I'm wrong.
But that loses its function.
And it just becomes this blind tribalism where we're just like, now who's our enemy?
Okay, we're good because they're losing.