Greg Lukianoff

Where is the time gone?

You probably just give up trying to actually have the argument and you never get to the argument in the first place.

It allows you to feel outrage and superiority.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And we call it efficient because it eliminates –

A lot of people you probably should listen to at least sometimes.

We point out sometimes how cancel culture can interfere with faith and expertise.

So we get kind of being a little suspicious of experts.

But at the same time, if you follow that and you follow it mechanically, and I definitely – I think everybody –

And the U.S.

probably has some older uncle who exercises some of these.

It is a really efficient way to sort of wall yourself off from the rest of the world and dismiss at least some people you really should be listening to.

We could be solving things.

What's the fun in empathy?

And I mean, what's so interesting about this is that so much societal energy seems to be spent on these nasty primal desires where essentially a lot of it is like, please tell me who I'm allowed to hate.

Where can I legitimately be cruel?

Where can I actually exercise some aggression against somebody?

And it seems to sometimes be just finding new justifications for that.

And it's an understandable, you know, human failing that sometimes can be used to defend justice.