Outrage culture and political decay

A couple of items for your consideration as we discuss social media. This NPR story relates to themes in the Haidt and Rose-Stockwell article we’re reading next: “How Outrage Is Hijacking Our Culture And Our Minds.” In this new essay in Foreign Affairs, Francis Fukuyama describes how social media and polarization are wrecking our political system: “Rotten to the Core? How America’s Political Decay Accelerated During the Trump Era.”