James Talarico

Because predatory algorithms are destroying an entire generation of young men in this country.

These algorithms make young men feel lonely and insecure.

And then those same algorithms tell them that the solution is domination.

It's an endless accumulation.

It's an endless hoarding of wealth and power.

And that is a spiritual sickness.

In my life, the best man that I know is my dad.

the man who gave me his last name, the man who raised me as his own.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.

And growing up, my dad, every Saturday, would mow our lawn.

And then without anyone asking him, he would go next door and he would mow our neighbor's lawn because she was elderly, she was a widow.

He never talked about it.

He just did it.

And I think that's what being a man is all about.

It's taking responsibility.

It's taking care of the people around you.

It's doing what's right even when no one is watching.

The internet tells these young men that being a man means tearing other people down.

It means trolling and owning and dominating.

So that's not what my dad taught me.