Young men without college degrees face compounding disadvantages: economic precarity from intergenerational wealth transfer, then encounter online algorithms explicitly designed to tell them it's not their fault and to blame women for romantic problems and immigrants for economic problems, become radicalized, and then gain access to weapons in a context of polarization—a 'dangerous alchemy' producing violence.
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“Take them online where they're likely to find algorithms who will tell them it's not their fault to blame women for their romantic problems and blame immigrants for their economic problems. They become radicalized. And then you mix in polarization, access to guns, and it's this dangerous alchemy.”
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What’s Actually Breaking America — with David Brooks | Prof G Conversations— The Prof G Pod – Scott GallowayCreated: 8/11/2026, 6:14:02 AM
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