Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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He was saying there has to be a responsibility, that these things are kind of public trusts.
And look, again, I think you get in a real problem territory when the government is deciding, you know, like I'm not saying it should be like,
this isn't something that should be legally policed.
But, like, if the people with the platforms are not policing themselves, that's a problem, right?
Because then, basically, people without character, people with, um...
agendas, they can take advantage of that.
You know, they take advantage of that.
And we're so consumed in America by like our political disagreements that we forget that there's
there's people outside America that are also trying to steer and navigate this discourse, right?
And just as, by the way, historically, we have done that in other countries.
But like, we seem to think that like the only agenda someone could have is like left or right, not like Russian, Chinese,
Iranian, like our enemies see these gaping holes in our media system.
They see these people who are basically available to the highest bidder.
And they're like, do I want to go to a war with America?
or do I want to make America go to war with itself?
And I think one of the things I was trying to write in Trust Me, I'm Lying is like, hey, look, here's how I'm getting you to buy t-shirts or getting you to follow this brand or this person or whatever.
But like real bad people can do these same things and in fact are doing these same things.
And I think that to me though, even the craziest part of our system,
isn't just that bad actors can do, but also the system can manipulate itself.
It's so primed for going to where the energy of the action is that sometimes things that start as jokes become real things, or things that start as the most harebrained conspiracy theory that you could imagine becomes real.
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