Richard Grannon

And that seems to have affected everybody.

Like we out someone every fucking week now.

Big, big part of it.

The devices themselves play a part in it because there should be a space between the signal, the interpretation of the signal and the reaction.

That's how we are evolved to communicate.

You say something or you signal something, there's a gap.

and then I'm gonna receive it, and then I'm gonna process it.

The devices, the tech, it moves at the speed of electricity, so it shortens everything.

So it makes every single communication cycle very, very tight and very, very short.

And one of the problems with that, we know from the psychology research, is the shorter and faster the communication is, the more aggression is read into it, and the more aggressively people communicate.

If I send you a letter

dear mr tufts on the 14th blah blah blah and you have to go through and read that letter the chance of you responding aggressively it goes down if you hear my voice the chance of you responding aggressively goes down this is all fast it's short and it's um it's voiceless there's no there's no there's no human quality there's no there's no irony there's no humor there's no

I mean, you know, so it makes things aggressive.

So social media and tech has dialed up aggression and bad faith communication.

I used to run martial arts forums.

Occasionally martial arts videos come up on Instagram.

People are discussing the right way to throw a left hook.

they start at level 10 aggression with each other well you would fucking dig that you fuck it and I'm like you're all boxers what are we doing but that's so that then resets as the norm so the cell that I was talking about before that's getting smaller and smaller slowly covertly and quietly the normal level of political discourse now starts at something incredibly hostile and incredibly bad faith and that's that's a shame shit man it's bad society has got used to playing knock tennis yeah

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Yes, and that's a really good shorthand for X and Twitter, Narc Tennis.