Different phenomena and if you will all under common road break and it prompted the question what are the commonalities here . Why is it that it seems like so many people have simultaneously lost their minds . [laughter] im here today in part because i care a great deal about the fine art of not losing your mind. And asking questions about how do we return to a somewhat more sane place in our politics . One of the things that this book highlighted at least for me is that all these phenomenon seem to be happening in two main locations. One of them is the campus environment and the other is of course social media. What are these two environments have in common . I would like to offer three answers, perhaps our panelists will have their own or will have responses to mine. My three answers at least are as follows. First theres the toto effect, the total effect is a wellknown phenomenon in Political Science where when a society undertakes to reform itself that is often precisely the moment
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