Best-selling author Jon Ronson has studied the human psyche and Donald Trump's MAGA movement. He told Q+A why cultural signals are increasing the disaffection of young men from politics.
British author Jon Ronson says "certainties have crumbled" for the working class, pushing young men into the arms of conspiracists like Alex Jones and misogynists like Andrew Tate.
But the best-selling British journalist and author, who's devoted his recent professional life to studying the human psyche in its most radical forms, believes the current lot of men needs attention."A lot of the things that men, both privileged and unprivileged, have relied on all these years, certainties have crumbled," Mr Ronson told the ABC's Q+A on Monday.
"These young boys are all gravitating towards the likes of Andrew Tate and these kind of awful manosphere people."Donald Trump's victory shows Australian leaders must "get back to basics", a former premier says, as a Coalition backbencher warns of a "groundswell" of disaffected men on Q+A."We have demonised maleness," she told Q+A.
High school teacher Dylan Peters told Q+A there's a "regurgitation" of messages from popular male podcasts by children at school. "Women still aren't earning the same, we're still not represented in parliament in the same numbers," the executive director of the Hilma's Network said.
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