15 December

People think you’re crazy if you suggest allowing people to become more social makes societies more violent. But sociality is violence, intrinsically, because social comparision is our deepest passion, and leads to imitative rivalry. If you then transform your entire societies into social media platforms, the violence will escalate exponentially. Welcome to 2025. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2517530122