interacting with information um and with one another um and then the fourth myth the fourth myth is that young people are meaner to one another um one of the things we've seen from the data about uh safety is sure enough bullying online ison the so it is absolutely the case that there is more examples out there and more people reporting bullying of a
Because we videotaped groups when they did start late-- when groups started late, there was more frustration. People actually were meaner to one another. They weren't listening as intently.
But unfortunately, what's happening is the exact opposite. People are becoming meaner to each other. This is a chart that comes from Chris Porath.
So this is a number of people who report someone being rude to them at work in the last, at least once, in the last month. So we're getting meaner to each other. And this has its costs.
And there was a lot more to it, and now he invites me to his mixed martial arts meets, where he gets to beat up people who are even meaner looking than him. These are his hands, by the way.
Democrats are incapable of doing that. There are a lot of reasons for that. In part, because the Democratic Party is a much wider, ideological party than the Republicans. But also because the Republicans are meaner and nastier. When people don't agree, when people don't behave the way that their activists want, they run primaries against them and sometimes they beat them. And they beat them with the
danger than previous generations were because of the internet um and the Third Kind of big myth uh that's out there I think is that young people are bad they're meaner to one another um than uh than previous generations um and so really I want to start by taking on kind of four of those myths um and then uh kind of go from there so the first myth
I grew up a very gawky awkward girl from about age nine to 22. I was terribly bullied by the mean boys and ostracized by the even meaner girls. I had a large amount of dysfunctionality and instability at home.
And one of the things in California is, we're not afraid. There's a sense that if there's not something bigger and meaner than you out there, it's not really wilderness. And I think that just making those connections.
And this is going to continue. Well what actually happens in the future-- systematic, meaner version in results. The gross stocks never achieve, on average, what the market thought they were going to achieve.
Like, it didn't hurt me in any way and actually, I enjoyed it. But if you're in, if you're not, if you're in the real world, it can be really scary. It can be a real problem for you, particularly as they get meaner and meaner and occasionally, people get shot or get threatened. One of my colleagues at CUNY is now the target of a Glenn Beck attack. That is quite scary.
sorting tools to get through it fifth the thing that comes at you from many of the schools environments is aggressive behavior that kids are actually meaner to one another whether it's in the bullying context or it's just more aggressive items or emails sent to one another than ever before it does seem like the
Umm, cool. Yeah. So, I mean, I definitely notice it. Like, as you grow, people get progressively meaner and meaner because, when it's small, it's just the people who sought you out and who really like it.
emails start with like I love you guys you're so great this is a great pod right but there's this one thing I have to point out yeah people are usually really nice about it um we found that some of the the meaner ones are when we do something on something that's really someone's passion um like you would not
I'm just thinking that all of these apps, for me, have good intention. So really talking about the power of anonymous apps, how we can be a little meaner behind a screen, how much more
She was fat, opinionated, and ineffably weird looking. fatter, weirder, even meaner as a result.
So it hasn't been chiseled down as much by the elements, it's much sharper. "K2 lacks the mass of Everest, but it's sleeker and meaner . Climbers call it the savage mountain.
The Bullying haven't happened so what we're seeing is now a chance I think to um interact more effectively with young people around these issues rather than just sort of blaming the technology and saying um this technology is forcing people uh to be meaner to one another um so I wonder if can I pause there and put this to these two uh two two guys here absolutely so um Sarah and Diana quite
- Yeah. Yeah, that... I could not agree more. There are some problems with, It looked good on paper, but it was unwieldy. It was replaced by this leaner, meaner , compact thing. They figure out how to deal with the Vikings by
they feel about something, I'm going to be attacked or I'm going to be canceled." And I read this essay once about how online people are lot meaner .
critic by far and so the idea that somebody's going to say mean things about my book, is I promise you, they could not say meaner things than I say to myself.
And so, I think it's likely that we're going to continue on this kind of trajectory with a meaner and more divided society unless there's a break in the politics.
demagogues then you will having a larger share of an economy that's almost dead in the water and a politics that's getting steadily angrier and meaner .
When you're, when you're 6'2" and 190, it's a little meaner , I guess.
I mean, I think that -- really, the only thing that I could have done that would have been meaner to Greg Mankiw would have been to post something on my blog calling his book, "A