Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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Okay, so if you have no understanding of human nature and you just think, hey, if I can connect with a thousand people, I'll be better off than if I only connect with three.
But that's not the way we work.
Human relationships are between people who have bodies.
And if you think about what friendship was like when you were a kid, you know, you share food and that bonds you together.
You share a lot of laughter.
I remember just laughing constantly with my friends and joking.
Shared laughter has really deep physiological and even hormonal effects.
Whereas liking each other's posts doesn't do it.
We move together in time.
Girls play patty cake or we do physical things, responding to each other's bodies.
And in the process, we come to love that person.
Strip all of that away, give every kid thousands of shallow friends, and what do you have?
An incredibly lonely, not just generation, but an increasingly lonely world.
In theory, what you say is true.
And of course, we haven't lived in the environment that we have,
The environment we adapted to or evolved in was the savannas of Africa.
Obviously we haven't lived in that way for a long time.
So we are adaptable.
But as we've moved to different places, we recreate, we do things.
So we create villages.
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