OnlySubs: Stepping Back from the Fakeness of Social Media

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 160

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Something is wrong with social media. Since we generally act as though we’re aware of that fact but don’t realize it, maybe it actually means something is wrong with us. I’m finding this issue more and more pressing and harder to ignore lately. In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take a few minutes to explore this personally with you and to suggest that there’s a light available in fundamentally changing our relationship to just how fake social media really is. I hope you’ll join me for this exploration and in starting to think profoundly differently about this tool we incorrectly believe represents something like a “digital public square.”

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James Lindsay

An American-born author, mathematician, and professional troublemaker, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory, which leads him to reject it completely. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody," which is currently being translated into more than fifteen languages.