Sep 25, 2025 10:08 PM
AFTER PARTY
https://youtu.be/CGqCoPrplII
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I wanted to roll this clip of Emma Watson [...] about JK Rowling. The two have had their disagreements ... over the years because JK Rowling has been adamantly and principally opposed to the takeover of women's rights by transgender identifying biological men.
[...] So obviously she's using very cringe-like therapeutic language in the clip about how she just has "to hold". ... Of course, a holding space. But apart from that, this is maybe indicative not just of Emma Watson's maturity, but of a cultural maturity that we haven't seen since the early social media upheaval...
Cancel culture was snowballing really after algorithms started to dictate social media feeds [...] Far-left progressivism had festered on the fringes of academia and Hollywood for a long time, but had never become as powerful across cultural institutions as it did when algorithms ... took over the way that we communicated with each other as human beings.
So those two things were happening at the same time, and algorithms were pushing these fake controversies that ... were not representative of a wider swath of the public.
[...] Don't get me wrong ... People, particularly in my generation -- millennials ... are very far-left on social cultural issues in a way that's going to cause strife for years to come.
But Gen-Z really isn't in the exact same way. [...] there's a lot more space for argument in Gen-Z -- at least right now -- than there was when millennials were the age that Gen-Z is now.
And as I'm watching this clip of Emma Watson on a podcast [...] it was an interesting glimmer of hope. That maybe the incentives which drove so much of the strife during peak cancel culture, where algorithms would pump up these fake controversies, and transmit them to center-left sympathetic people in corporate boardrooms and newsrooms, to make them take these nontroversies much more seriously than they should.
Because it was just an organized group of people getting mad on social media, that were not reflective of their broader customer base, in every single case. It drove people to react in ways that that weren't entirely constructive...
https://youtu.be/CGqCoPrplII
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CGqCoPrplII
https://youtu.be/CGqCoPrplII
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I wanted to roll this clip of Emma Watson [...] about JK Rowling. The two have had their disagreements ... over the years because JK Rowling has been adamantly and principally opposed to the takeover of women's rights by transgender identifying biological men.
[...] So obviously she's using very cringe-like therapeutic language in the clip about how she just has "to hold". ... Of course, a holding space. But apart from that, this is maybe indicative not just of Emma Watson's maturity, but of a cultural maturity that we haven't seen since the early social media upheaval...
Cancel culture was snowballing really after algorithms started to dictate social media feeds [...] Far-left progressivism had festered on the fringes of academia and Hollywood for a long time, but had never become as powerful across cultural institutions as it did when algorithms ... took over the way that we communicated with each other as human beings.
So those two things were happening at the same time, and algorithms were pushing these fake controversies that ... were not representative of a wider swath of the public.
[...] Don't get me wrong ... People, particularly in my generation -- millennials ... are very far-left on social cultural issues in a way that's going to cause strife for years to come.
But Gen-Z really isn't in the exact same way. [...] there's a lot more space for argument in Gen-Z -- at least right now -- than there was when millennials were the age that Gen-Z is now.
And as I'm watching this clip of Emma Watson on a podcast [...] it was an interesting glimmer of hope. That maybe the incentives which drove so much of the strife during peak cancel culture, where algorithms would pump up these fake controversies, and transmit them to center-left sympathetic people in corporate boardrooms and newsrooms, to make them take these nontroversies much more seriously than they should.
Because it was just an organized group of people getting mad on social media, that were not reflective of their broader customer base, in every single case. It drove people to react in ways that that weren't entirely constructive...
https://youtu.be/CGqCoPrplII