Ed Coper

Nobody's going to hear that.

If you go out there and start shouting down...

your opponents, reducing them to one dimensional avatars and then hurling, you know, insults at them or saying that you have a secret cure to cancer by, you know, injecting bleach into your veins or by saying that there's, you know, a hack that you have to be more jacked than, you know, the other boys and you're going to get more attention if you just follow these beauty tips.

That's what's going to get you rewarded.

And that is why young people have these really extreme views.

Young men have the same views on women as men in their 70s at the moment.

And if that doesn't make us stop and think something has gone wrong with the information diet, then we're not paying enough attention.

Well, we have an algorithm in our heads, and it's very ancient, right?

Humans haven't changed biologically for tens of thousands of years, and every part of us is there for a very good reason.

Evolution has decided that everything we do has a purpose.

And the same is true of anger and outrage.

They're really important emotions.

Anger is really important to communicate when something is wrong or something is not as it should be in the world, when there's some violation against your moral code.

And outrage is how we bond together with those in our tribe

to collectively correct that wrong.

We use our anger collectively, and that's a good thing.

That's an evolutionary tool.

And in fact, anger is so powerful an emotion, it overrides our own self-interest.

If I'm there...

in my village and I see a Viking horde coming over the hill, I will pick up my sword or pitchfork and go and try and defeat them to protect my village even if I die in the process because my emotional response to that threat is stronger than my self-interest.