Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

Just clearly like, you know, usually involving innocent people getting killed, right?

And in the Spanish Civil War, it was like, you know, nuns getting killed or something like that, right?

And again, the point of the atrocity, the point of the atrocity is not that it affected 100,000 people.

The point of the atrocity is, in fact, maybe the best atrocity only affects a small number of people because you want to personalize it.

And then he said, he says this, he says, the truth or falsehood of the atrocity, it doesn't matter at all.

Like the atrocity, if the atrocity is made up, the political value of the atrocity is just as high.

And so it doesn't matter – like once the atrocity cycle gets running, it doesn't matter whether the underlying thing is true or false because the point of it is to have the atrocity be a propaganda win for moral justification and then for moral demonization of the other side.

And by the way –

Lest people think that I'm being cynical when I go through all this, I'm not saying, I think this is all good.

Like I'm not saying, I think that this world is great.

I'm not saying that this, I think that this is all positive.

I'm saying something different, which is I think it's very important to understand how this actually works.

Because when you find yourself in the middle of one of these things, I think it's very useful to have at least a slice of your brain that's basically saying, all right, I need to be aware of the fact that I'm getting pulled into something

That I'm being triggered by emotion and I'm being triggered and I'm being slotted into a moral tribe and I'm mounting up to go to war with the hated enemy.

And it's on the basis of something that very well might not be true.

And this is a Rene Girard thing, which is the scapegoating cycle always works because people always forget that there's a scapegoating cycle.

Whenever you have to crucify the scapegoat, it's always the most morally important thing that's ever happened.

for the duration of that cycle, right?

Until it's forgotten by the next one.

And so a big part of what I'm trying to do is explain why, as we surf all of these current things, that we at least keep part of our brain and basically says, look, this is the state of the world we live in.

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