Ep. 29 Cancel Culture + Shame
Public shaming didn't start with the internet — it's ancient, evolutionary, and genuinely primal. This episode covers why shame exists at all (and what it's evolved to protect), the fMRI research showing social rejection lights up the same brain regions as physical pain, why anonymity online doesn't make people lose control so much as conform harder to the group around them, why nobody in a pile-on feels personally responsible for it, and the real, divided research and public opinion on what cancel culture actually is.
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