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Marc Andreessen @pmarca

We did not live in a calm, placid, rational, happy world before smartphones. People have been bananas forever. On most metrics, people were more bananas in the past than they are now. If anything, technology may be calming people down. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 2, 2023

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Yes, the chain may be technology -> cultural changes -> social outcomes. But always ask, did such cultural changes and social outcomes also happen before the technology? Many assertions that technology causes social outcomes are ahistorical. — PolitiTweet.org

"It's the lead!" "It's the video games!" "It's recorded music!" "It's radio!" "It's phones!"

Posted March 2, 2023

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The simplest explanation for [waves hands] is: We are going through a secularized Protestant Great Awakening ("the Great Awokening"). If so, it's the fifth in 300 years. The others definitely predated phones/apps. This rules out phones/apps as the cause. https://t.co/4SOcPiH5uJ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 2, 2023