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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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The internet can be a wonderful, but also a terribly unpleasant place. Andrew Marantz knows this well. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker who spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls to understand how regular people propel fringe talking points into the heart of online conversations. In this episode, he shares how ideas spread on the internet – and what we can do to make our digital experiences less about doom-scrolling, and more about real human connection. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
0:04.0 | You're listening to How to Bea Bea Better Human. |
0:10.0 | I'm your host Chris Duffy. I grew up in New York City and so one of the big |
0:15.2 | differences between my childhood and friends who grew up in other places is how little time I spent |
0:20.5 | in cars. Starting in around fifth grade I could walk over to a friend's house or hop on the bus on my own. |
0:28.0 | I remember the first time I took the subway on my own my dad secretly followed me the whole way and he rode in the car right behind me. |
0:33.7 | I actually didn't know it at the time he only told me that he did this recently. |
0:37.1 | But pretty soon after that he got comfortable with me on the train and I was comfortable |
0:40.4 | and if I wanted to go somewhere I would just take the subway regularly all over the city. |
0:44.4 | I have so many memories of sitting calmly on the train as it whirs along and I'm peacefully reading my book. |
0:49.4 | So it was kind of surprising when as an adult living in a different state, I owned my first car and I finally started driving to work regularly. |
0:57.0 | I was really surprised by road rage, and not just other people's road rage, but my own. |
1:02.8 | Because I cannot think of a time when I ever cursed someone out |
1:07.7 | or flipped someone off while I was walking down the sidewalk |
1:10.8 | or on a subway. |
1:11.7 | I just can't imagine that. But inside of a car, I would |
1:15.9 | often just find myself boiling with rage. I remember this one time, a car cut me off at a crowded |
1:21.3 | intersection and I had to slam on my brakes to avoid crashing. |
1:24.4 | And I was so angry at this person for doing this dangerous move and for being such a fool. |
1:29.6 | And I was yelling curse words at them and they were yelling curse words at me and then I pulled |
1:33.3 | alongside the car ready to throw my middle finger out the window at them and I saw that this |
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