The Story of Us

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1. antiframeMay 2022
   > Can you explain how social media is an actual threat to the democracy or democratic process to a reasonable person?

   The best explanation I've read of this is Tim Urban's "The Story of Us" series [1]. It builds up a model from individual behavior to societal behavior and how it's changed over the decades due to how online interactions have shifted behavior (both individual and societal).

   I don't know whether it's the right or wrong model and explanation, but he lays it out very clearly.

   [1]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

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2. guiambrosJan 2022
   Likewise; love Tim Urban. Spent way too much time reading his work. My favorites are "Religion for the Nonreligious" [1] (which actually has little to do with religion, despite the title), and "The Tail End" [2]. Each one gave me new ways of looking at life and relationships, in ways that I haven't thought before.

   I started "The Story of Us" [3], but haven't gone through all. I think it crossed the threshold of long-blog-post and became almost a book-in-a-blog.

   [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious...

   [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

   [3] https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

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3. brycehalleyOct 2019
   SS: Chapter 7 of Tim Urban's The Story of Us. You can find the series' table of contents here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
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