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'Something went haywire': Why past decade has been 'uniquely stupid'

In a recent Atlantic piece, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt writes about the past decade of American life and why he calls it uniquely stupid. Haidt joins Morning Joe to discuss.

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Please note what happened when we, the television generation, went from 3 networks to cable tv.

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Superb comments and discussion, thank you…

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Harry... "Huh, I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this" Lloyd... "I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full a shit man".

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Fantastic segment. If SM is going to elevate anything to society’s benefit, it should be discussions like this 1.

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keep the convo going. Bring

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back to discuss how we’re robbing youth of autonomy, decision-making, permission to fail.

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A management rule says if you make intelligent people follow stupid processes, you will not get smart processes. You will only get intelligent people doing stupid things. I think we've reached that point where we have too many intelligent people doing stupid things.

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I too have been describing our current situation as the #TowerofBabel. Exactly how I describe discussions with my family members. #SocialMedia silos have made us incapable of communicating. we no longer live in the same world. 🙁