Helen Lewis

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1,139 appearances 8 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 24 Jun

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The Ezra Klein Show · The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

And all of those things I do find a bit missing in this literature.

I think it's also why it's so popular now is that a lot of it is essentially self-help.

And that is the dominant literary genre of the age and the kind of dominant social media genre of the age.

Yeah, I think about this a lot because, you know, it's a cliche to say at this point, but for people who have lost religion, you know, you have lost a lot of community and regularity to your life and a rhythm of your life too.

You know, the church in which I grew up, we had Palm Sunday and Easter and then you have Harvest Festival and then Advent and Christmas.

You know, there is a sense of life's occasions being marked.

There are baptisms and funerals and

There is confession.

There's a chance to kind of offload your sins.

There are kind of rituals within that that are probably deeply helpful to people as anchors within their lives.

And while I can't say I have personal faith anymore, I think that it is a shame to have lost those structures in life.

And I don't know if there is a way to recreate them.

And I don't think any of this would be happening if we weren't all essentially spending six hours a day staring at a tiny little portal into madness.

Right.

And I wish I could give it up.

I feel like one of those people who goes, well, of course, eating meat is terrible.

And they're like, do you still like burgers?

I do.

And that's probably also true.

But with the digital world, we have essentially hooked everybody up to a little dopamine drip.

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