> 你能向一个讲道理的人解释一下，社交媒体到底是怎么对民主或民主进程构成实质威胁的吗？对于这个问题，我读过最好的解释是 Tim Urban 的《The Story of Us》系列文章 [1]。它搭建了一个模型，从个体行为一路推导到社会行为，并解释了几十年来网络互动如何改变了这种行为（包括个体层面和社会层面）……
> Can you explain how social media is an actual threat to the democracy or democratic process to a reasonable person? The best explanation I've read of this is Tim Urban's "The Story of Us" series [1]. It builds up a model from individual behavior to societal behavior and how it's changed over the decades due to how online interactions have shifted behavior (both individual and societal).…
……其实和宗教没太大关系，虽然标题带了这两个字），还有《The Tail End》[2]。每一篇都给了我审视生活和人际关系的全新视角，是我以前从未想过的角度。我开始读《The Story of Us》[3] 了，但还没全看完。我觉得它已经跨过了长博客文章的门槛，几乎成了一本“博客形态的书”。[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious... [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html……
…actually has little to do with religion, despite the title), and "The Tail End" [2]. Each one gave me new ways of looking at life and relationships, in ways that I haven't thought before. I started "The Story of Us" [3], but haven't gone through all. I think it crossed the threshold of long-blog-post and became almost a book-in-a-blog. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious... [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html…
> 你能向一个讲道理的人解释一下，社交媒体到底是怎么对民主或民主进程构成实质威胁的吗？对于这个问题，我读过最好的解释是 Tim Urban 的《The Story of Us》系列文章 [1]。它搭建了一个模型，从个体行为一路推导到社会行为，并解释了几十年来网络互动如何改变了这种行为（包括个体层面和社会层面）……
> Can you explain how social media is an actual threat to the democracy or democratic process to a reasonable person? The best explanation I've read of this is Tim Urban's "The Story of Us" series [1]. It builds up a model from individual behavior to societal behavior and how it's changed over the decades due to how online interactions have shifted behavior (both individual and societal).…
……其实和宗教没太大关系，虽然标题带了这两个字），还有《The Tail End》[2]。每一篇都给了我审视生活和人际关系的全新视角，是我以前从未想过的角度。我开始读《The Story of Us》[3] 了，但还没全看完。我觉得它已经跨过了长博客文章的门槛，几乎成了一本“博客形态的书”。[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious... [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html……
…actually has little to do with religion, despite the title), and "The Tail End" [2]. Each one gave me new ways of looking at life and relationships, in ways that I haven't thought before. I started "The Story of Us" [3], but haven't gone through all. I think it crossed the threshold of long-blog-post and became almost a book-in-a-blog. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious... [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html…
省流/太长不看版：Tim Urban 的《The Story of Us》第七章。你可以在这里找到该系列的目录：https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
SS: Chapter 7 of Tim Urban's The Story of Us. You can find the series' table of contents here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html