You Need To Listen: Episode 19 - Are We In The Era Of Stupidity?

In 2022, social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt wrote a piece for The Atlantic entitled “Why the past ten years of American life have been uniquely stupid”. Since that time, the country has seen the continue rise of unregulated social media, intense, and often violent political partisanship, and a further erosion of public civility played out at school board meetings, sporting events, and even at the local grocery store. Recent polling has measured a growing distrust of media, a concern over political bias in general, and a partisan feud over what regulation of social media content would even look like. On the latest episode of You Need to Listen, Kristin Brey and Steve Scaffidi look at the years since 2022 and offer their unique perspectives on how we got here, the current state of our dysfunctional culture, and what, if anything, we can do to reverse course. This week on the You Need to Listen Podcast, Kristin and Steve take on the question, Are we in the era of stupidity? Scaffidi and Brey are also the cohosts of Point Taken, which airs 10-Noon, weekdays on 620WTMJ.