Ezra Klein

And he could let the neo-Nazis back onto the platform.

And so you have like one of these central spaces of political information and sentiment construction has gone from toxic to unbelievably toxic.

And that was the big social investment

of the richest person in the world to do that to us.

But I think this is true across a bunch of them.

I don't believe, yes.

I am not a huge fan of the way Elon Musk is trying to shape American and global politics.

But I think that he believes he is, you know, trying to save us from the woke mind virus and collapsing fertility.

But I think that sentiment is a complex system.

And what has happened is that there are enough things that have tipped badly that we've entered into a negative feedback loop.

And it's very, very hard to get out of a negative feedback loop because there's no one thing.

If wages go up, it's actually not enough.

People's view, for instance, of crime.

Crime is really low in America right now.

Compared to where it was in the 90s, for example.

People still feel very upset about it, right?

And one reason is that- Murder rates, particularly, yeah.

And so I think what you have is a situation where there's no one thing, but basically lots of negative sentiment get like slingshotted forward on algorithmic media.

This is AI, this is everything else.

And there's just a generalized sense that things are bad.