On November 22, 2025 Dave Rubin sat down with Scott Galloway for a blunt, necessary conversation about how Big Tech and its AI-driven algorithms are wrecking the social fabric and hollowing out a generation of men. The pair laid out a clear picture: likes, comments, and the fear of public shaming aren’t neutral features — they’re behavioral levers that push people toward extremes and keep them hooked.
Galloway warned that the incentives baked into social platforms reward outrage, not thoughtful discourse, and that most viral engagement is hollow noise amplified by bots and a system optimized for engagement above truth. That’s not accidental; it’s the corporate playbook — keep people angry, keep them clicking, and the profit machine hums.
They also laid bare a cultural emergency among men: endless scrolling, porn, gaming, and synthetic AI relationships are replacing resilience-building friction and real-world connection. That cigarette-and-opioid analogy rings true because these tech platforms are engineered to addict, and the result is a generation less resilient, less capable of handling rejection, and more isolated.
Rubin’s confession that quitting Twitter dramatically improved his mental health should be a wake-up call for every American who still thinks social media is harmless entertainment. Stepping away from the outrage treadmill is not coddling — it’s common-sense recovery from a machine designed to manipulate your emotions and your attention.
Conservatives should be the loudest critics of this abuse because it undermines the virtues that built this country: personal responsibility, community, and honest debate. While the left preaches victimhood in lecture halls, tech oligarchs quietly monetize your loneliness and weaponize shame; we should demand transparency, accountability, and the restoration of real-life institutions that teach character.
The practical takeaway is simple and patriotic: audit your addictions, reclaim your time, and rebuild resilience through work, fitness, and face-to-face community. This isn’t soft advice — it’s a strategy for survival in an age that rewards distraction and punishes rugged independence.
If conservatives want to win the culture war we must stop surrendering the public square to algorithmic mob rule and start modeling the virtues we preach. Push back against the platforms that profit from division, teach young people the value of rejection and hard work, and refuse to outsource your identity to an app designed to make you small.
