Ed Coper

And so as long as you have a system that maps to our human emotional regulation, you are always going to have things that win that make us angry, that make us scared, that make us outraged.

Yeah, it's a really great analogy.

People have always had their uninformed opinions that they want to tell you about.

But the cab driver had an audience of one.

And the cab driver couldn't walk in here and pick up a microphone and broadcast his or her opinions.

The equivalent of the world we live in now is that every cab driver who has an uninformed opinion

has a media platform.

And in fact, we are going to pay attention to the cab driver that has the worst opinion, that has the most uninformed and conspiracy-laden take on current affairs.

They're going to be the one that are the media barons of our new media empire.

Now, the story about the protest in London is really about something that started as very peaceful and quite a happy and joyful gathering.

A lot of hippies and flower children.

Everyone was deeply connected over all these positive emotions and common purpose that all brought us down to the protest.

And then all of a sudden the police decided to act, as sometimes they do at protests.

They charged with horses.

They boxed us in as protesters.

And, of course, that changed the emotional tenor of events.

Our very primal instincts of not just being boxed in and cornered, which is, as you would know for any animal, is the biggest threat you can feel, but also became tribal and our in-group became

turned our shared emotions from these positive ones to anger.

And you could see it ripple through the crowd.

And I'm not immune either.