Ed Coper

I mean, if we...

Look at the threads of who is financing this sort of political campaign.

It's all industries that don't want you to reform anything.

They don't want you to change.

You know, there's a lot of, you know, the Koch brothers in the US, these great industrialists who make money on fossil fuels.

They fund the anti-trans hysteria.

to protect their fossil fuel interests.

Now, why would they do that?

It's got nothing to do with them.

It's because they get this.

The more that we are shouting angrily at each other, the more that we are flitting from one outrage to the next, the less attention we are paying to what we should be paying attention to, which are the very real crises of our time, which require an incredibly nuanced, complex and consensus-based response if we're going to navigate them quickly.

Can we do that in the era of social media outrage?

That's the real question we should be asking.

There are so many solutions that all have to happen at once.

And obviously an incredibly important thing is that we recognise if these problems are caused by the time we spend yelling at the avatars of each other online, of course we have to spend more time reconnecting with real humans in the flesh.

That's going to be really healthy for us, just writ large, not just for our body politic.

That's just a very good idea in general.

The more time we spend in the real world with each other, the less likely we are to be angry at each other to the point of polarisation.

Or to violence, for that matter.

order violence, which is the logical endpoint to all of this.