TST 8/7/23 - Free Dumb of the Flash Mob w. Charlie Robinson

We seem to have a generation of people who are looking for the white van, not to avoid it, but to demand free candy. Common people are so eager to take their unfair share of anything labeled ‘free’, going so far as to attack others and do things that lack basic human decency. They want free money, phones, schooling, debt relief, electronics, clothing, etc., and will fight for the last gaming console, but say nothing about FREE-dom. When a mob gathered in New York Union Square Friday afternoon some excepted to walk away with a free Playstation from the Twitch streamer Kai Cenat. Shorty into the gathering, however, people began rioting, even jumping onto a moving vehicle they thought Kai was in. Thirty of the sixty five arrested were minors and one person was rushed to the hospital having been shot with a firework. This sounds similar to the work of political activist groups that gather and resort to violence within a short period of time. Ironically, when the issue was not made racial; the media made no comment on laregly white police arresting a largely black crowd. Seems there is a weird double standard here. Nevertheless, what we witnessed was how the barely literate, and very entitled, can be so easily influenced into doing anything their phones and apps tell them. Influencers can easily become government or corporate plants paid to sell or influence public opinion. Heroes are being replaced by corporate-sponsored influencers and smooth-talking politicians by the mentally damaged. Charlie Robinson of Macro-aggressions joins us to discuss: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macroaggressions/id1501964274