Dr. Todd Rose

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.

And I think people will have some similar experience because I can remember the first time that I actually experienced a collective illusion.

So...

Growing up, I was kind of a problematic child, which I'm sure we can talk about, and didn't really fit in except for my grandmother, who was like my second mom.

Whenever I was with her, I could just be myself, and I was good enough.

And she decided, I mean, they were very, very poor.

She had me come and sleep over as a kid once a month, just me.

Literally no other grandkids got this.

And when I was there, she'd make a bologna sandwich in her little tiny kitchenette.

would play Yahtzee together and we'd just talk and I could share anything with her.