way in a reasonable way, if they start to be quiet Even if that first group, the rabble -rousers, even if they're at the same volume, the effect is that the volume of the rabble -rousers goes up because the volume of the intelligent people who want to have great conversations but understand there may be disagreements, that's actually gone to zero.
Marisa Renee Lee is a called-upon advocate, writer, and speaker on coping with grief. She is a rabble -rouser of social healing. She is a former appointee in the Obama White House, former managing director of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, the CEO of Beacon Advisors, co-founder
Mark: Yeah. I don't know. I was automatically branded a rabble rouser Male Presenter: Yeah. That's like Mark: For doing two presentations.
they tend to go away as well. The only people that are left are the rabble -rousers, and that's not good. Yeah, my fear is a little different.
You haven't always gotten on well with journalists, especially in Britain, right? Oh, what a rabble . They're as stupid as the Republican candidates at the present--
So he starts with this, you know, every speech he does always starts with the same way, always starts from a kind of negative and always ends with an incredible positive, this rabble -rousing crescendo of, if you're in the front row, spittle, halitosis and gesticulation.
the good parts of the internet. And there are people slaving away at it who get under-recognized compared with some of the rabble -rousers.
It was like, Jim, the perfect name for your new beer is Sacred Cod. And if you-- Sam Adams was a propagandist, a rabble rouser, a true revolutionary.
who are happy to step into the breach with more and more Intense point of views, right? And you could argue that- Well, if you think about kind of three sets of people, there are the people who are the rabble -rousers, right? And they're gonna poke people because they want reactions, right?
If all of a sudden the people in the middle who are okay having the debate but wanna have it in an intelligent way in a reasonable way, if they start to be quiet Even if that first group, the rabble -rousers, even if they're at the same volume, the effect is that the volume of the rabble -rousers goes up because the volume of the intelligent people who want to have great conversations but understand there may be disagreements,
Yeah, my fear is a little different. My fear is that I take those three groups, and here's my fear: that the people who are the rabble -rousers are loud and become louder. The people who are in the middle maybe try intermittently to engage but find it's unproductive and eventually stop.
My concern, and I think this is, you can see some of this in other social platforms, social media platforms, and I'm curious about yours, is if you are based on attention, if your business model depends on attention, it's not only okay for it to be dominated by rabble -rousers, it's possible that it's even beneficial because there's evidence to suggest that people are Drawn to intense, outrage-driven content.
And I didn't know what I was talking about. But it was definitely amusing And it taught me, kind of, being a rabble rouser was fun. Really, we're just on the corner, like, trying to disrupt the world.