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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So let's turn it into a tool. This is Arrow unplugged. Wow,

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I don't know what to say because what we say

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can easily be taken away. It seems like that's where

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we're walking these days. It's been growing bigger and bigger

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for the past five to ten years. What you do,

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what you say, how you react, it's being watched, it's

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being listened to, it's being judged. But where does it stop.

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And when it stops, what's next? What's new? What will

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happen If suddenly what you do do is that thing

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that you can't do, it's now a thing of the past. Hey,

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it's arrow. This is the choice. This is what I

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was writing while the sun was waking up on a

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brilliant new day. Today we're reading from March fourteenth, twenty

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twenty four. Finding yourself on a page in a world

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of smartphone screens and digital notebooks. I was once that

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person who thought bookstores would take a huge hit when

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the kindle and Nook were first brought into the life

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and style of this human always trying to keep up

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with the Joneses. Another part of the evolution is this

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thing called book talk, pretty much like audible listening to

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the books while driving or while you're at work. Steven

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Ferdick's new book, Do the New You is my first

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attempt at catching up with these Joneses. I was with

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novelist Lucinda Barry the other day and we talked openly

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about how important book talk is for her writing career.

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And we've bumped into a serious problem. Book talk is

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connected to TikTok, which is facing a huge test. The

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government wants to ban the digital app because they believe

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it helps the Chinese spy on us. We've been here before.

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There are millions of TikTok users utilizing this app by

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making it a tool to put their music on it,

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to put their art on it, to do things with it.

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You can't help but ask what's next. Can digital technology

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come up with a multi layered platform, a popular one

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at that, and serve these creative people? Or are these

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the opening steps of censorship in America? Where do you

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find yourself? What are you doing today? That has been bent, reshaped,

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tossed into a completely different direction and is so far

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away from who you wanted to become because other people

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redesigned you. And are we in a place like that again,

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where people are going to try to decide for you.

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And I don't know about you, but I've got enough

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people in my life now that are always going I

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don't know what to do? What do you want to do?

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I don't know, I don't know. We are so trained

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to just sit back and go I don't know, what

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do you want to do? I don't know. I really don't.

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I'm MARYL. And that's what I was writing while the

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sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.