Rage Against the Smartphone | The Social Dilemma

You're addicted to screens that seduce you away from everything meaningful in life with neon flashes of phantom happiness.      You haven't had an original thought in weeks because the newsfeed-to-brain pipeline we call a smartphone is ever-flowing.      Issue after issue is either created or compounded by the man-made mechanisms that connect and then control mass populations. But don't worry, the creators of these problems have inspiring ideas of what the future can be—and this time everything will be different.      Right?   ◬ In this episode:      ⋗ Word of the podcast: Dilemma ⋗ Can the problems tech people created be solved by the same people?   ⋗ We disagree more, but we also see our disagreement like never before ⋗ The arrogant utopianism of tech culture threatens society ⋗ The danger of conflating healthy dissent with unhealthy division ⋗ What would a social media credit score look like?   ⋗ Revisiting the concept of the mad scientist   ⋗ 🎵Facebook sees you when you're sleeping, it knows when you're awake🎵     ◬ Get every weekly episode and a civilized space to discuss philosophy, society, mythology, and more on <a href='https://www.patreon.com/silvereyesociety'>the Silver Eye Society Patreon</a>.   ◬ Listen to the podcast via: <ul class="public-DraftStyleDefault-ul"><li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-reset public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" style="text-align:center;"> <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/0os9rvFzt9EyjPzman9Wjf?si=4izCTGmoSh-sMs0qcqWJ_g'>Spotify</a> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" style="text-align:left;"> <a href='https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/3dff262e-dfc9-43f2-99d8-9889c8212e15/SILVER-EYE-SOCIETY'>Amazon</a> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" style="text-align:left;"> <a href='http://tun.in/pkgRs'>