The revolution will be memed

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. One of the most frustrating things about the world right now is that it often feels like the most powerful people are basically edgelords, announcing consequential policies by memes and shitposting. If there's an information war out there, It seems like it's already lost. But maybe the problem is that we're fighting the wrong battle, or the right battle in the wrong way.

Maybe we're bringing white papers to a gif fight. I'm Sean Ayling. And this is the gray area. Today's guest is Callie Lassen. He's a filmmaker, author, magazine editor, and activist.

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