Unstupiding Ourselves

Factions of the Most Frivolous and Fanciful Distinctions

In 2022, Social Psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, made the case that a particular change in the way social media worked made the past 10 years of American life uniquely stupid. Drawing from the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, Haidt accurately describes a nation that is suddenly disoriented and unable to speak the same language or recognize the same tr…