Lauren Southern: how my tradlife turned toxic
Lauren Southern: how my tradlife turned toxic
Section titled “Lauren Southern: how my tradlife turned toxic”
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Mary Harrington
- Full Title: Lauren Southern: how my tradlife turned toxic
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- URL: https://unherd.com/2024/05/lauren-southern-the-tradlife-influencer-filled-with-regret/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Highlights
Section titled “Highlights”- But I think Southern’s story offers cause for optimism. It suggests that maybe, just maybe, our current crop of internet-generated political derangements will turn out to be a temporary symptom, driven by generations who grew up without the internet and hence without much psychological defence against its many pathologies. By contrast, the first generation to grow up online is now approaching middle age. A great many besides Lauren Southern have road-tested ideologies they developed in virtual space and are finding them inadequate to the real world’s complexities