Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook who helped design the website, knew they were creating something harmful and addictive. They intentionally exploited a human psychological vulnerability, knowing it would harmful. Parker said, "It literally changes your relationship with society and each other. God only knows what it is doing to our children's brains." [...]
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Thomas Sheridan joins us to talk about the 2010 film The Social Network, which tells the story of the origins of facebook. We discuss the class struggle portrayed in the story, the mechanism by which the film could have been influenced by the CIA, the archetypes in the finely-produced melodrama that plays out, the CIA’s silicon valley network which is conspicuous by its absence from the narrative, and the meaning of the movie’s dark and brooding tone. We also get into some unusual areas, including the mystery of the sub sandwic
