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> Profanity ... motivates people

Yeah, that's the problem. Too many people swayed by cheap laughs and the thrill of anger. Thus the failed insurrection earlier this year. It's hard to predict what'll be fun this week.

> Not everyone has the time to attend your 1 hour TED talk.

I guess we should package up the science into more concise bits. How about 5 minutes instead of 1 hour?



lol you're saying that people stormed the capitol because of profanity?

This reminds me of a time shortly after 9/11 when an agitated old man chased my friend for a block while screaming "People like you caused 9/11" just because he stole a jack in the box mascot head car antenna topper.


> lol ... an agitated old man chased my friend for a block while screaming

On the second thought, this makes me sad. I hope someday I'll be an old man living among friends, instead of watching my neighborhood devolve. It's all perspective, of course. I've been the hipster, now I'm the gentrifier. Still, one can feel the pain of that old man.


No, that's not what I said. "Cheap laughs and the thrill of anger" is a superset. More succinctly, "bread and circus." There's nothing new about it.




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