Christine Rosen on the Harms of the Digital Age

I can't say often enough how on the right and the left you have a whole bunch of politicians who are more concerned about followers than constituents. Their constituents are the people who they are supposed to answer to, but they answer to their followers, many of whom don't live in their district, have no concern beyond, you know, signaling their tribal loyalty online. And this has been bad. This has been very bad for democracy. And now the good fight.

with Yasha Monk. When we talk about how the digital world has transformed our lives, it is tempting to think about the big issues, to think about how artificial intelligence will transform the world to talk about whether or not social media use has driven up suicide among teenage girls. But I think that there is just this important set of questions, which is a little bit less dramatic. How has all of our life been transformed by these digital technologies?

Have we become less likely to have deep real-life relationships? Is there a real decline in the number of social occasions that people organize, as some data suggests? How are social norms changing? To, on the one hand, normalize things like OnlyFans, And on the other hand, we'll have a huge social opprobrium on people who have violated some important but broadly breached social norms like fidelity within a marriage.

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