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Hysteria, the Google Memo, and Growing Up With a Mentally Ill Mother
from Alt Ass Eating · #57
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3 minDiscussion of media hysteria and the Google diversity memo controversy transitions into Tim opening up about his mother's decades-long descent into mental illness and hoarding, sparked by cleaning out his late grandmother's house.
- 7:41Social media and information processing have made hysteria the rule rather than the exception.
- 7:55North Korea is a rogue nuclear state with a starving, programmed population living under a cultish regime.
- 8:35Even if you invade North Korea and liberate the people, what happens next—you're left with a bad situation.
- 8:51China doesn't want war with North Korea because it would produce a destabilizing flood of refugees.
- 9:18People claiming to be anti-war should stop panicking over scary headlines, because that panic and furor feeds directly into justifications for war.
- 9:54Trump talking about military options for Venezuela shows him gambling on war to be seen as a strong leader, like a Bush-style play.
- 10:35Trump has civil war-like factions in the country now, and while they're small relative to the population, the emotion they inspire means something dangerous is brewing.
North KoreaDonald TrumpVenezuelaChristopher Hidgens