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A special two part episode of Meandering covering Netflix's Social Dilemma film kicks off with some jokes and an introduction and how anger and polarization has found its home online and is scarily inviting everyone to participate. We discuss how our current predicament has been aggregating data for this current era for some time (34:00). We discuss how the President of the United States is both a victim and a manipulator of the social media disease (50:00) and how social media and these algorithms we speak of impacted the early stages of Covid 19 (74:00). We close out Part 1 of this special discussion with a comparison of religiosity origins vs 21st Century social media and Morgan's two cents on Mercari and Sacha's two cents on predatory versus free market capitalism. We also tap into the very fresh discussion of digital monopolies that some companies have build and upkept (88:00)