He believes that social media algorithms create isolated news feeds that prevent people from perceiving reality accurately and foster tribalism.

“Those two things are the reasons that we just don't understand basically reality anymore and can't stand, you know, the other side because, you know, if if I said, you know, hate crimes aren't on the rise, people would think I'm an absolute monster”

The United States has undergone a fundamental transformation where citizens are unable to mobilize as a culture because they are nihilistic.

“We're unable to mobilize as a culture in the United States anymore because to Tim's point, everyone is dassinated. Everyone is nihilistic. Just no one can like work up the courage to care about anything anymore.”

The cultural divide in the United States makes it impossible for artists to benefit from performing at right-leaning events.

“I'm not downplaying that the death threats are playing a role in this, but I'm saying primarily right now, if you are a musical artist, you just have zero to gain from participating in this.”

The combination of social media, artificial intelligence, and tribal identification is narrowing human focus and pushing society into echo chambers.

“So I think all of those things are coming together. social media, soon artificial intelligence, audience capture, the fracturing of the media ecosystem, the polarization of our politics, the polarization of our demographies as people move into just areas where there there are more like-minded people”