The Hook Up Why Are Guys Becoming More Conservative?
Feb 20, 2025
Dr Zac Seidler, clinical psychologist and men's mental health researcher, explores why many men are drifting conservative. He discusses cultural shifts, social media echo chambers, loneliness and the search for purpose. Short, practical ideas on rebuilding belonging and healthier male communities are also covered.
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Echo Chambers Break Shared Reality
- Social media has fractured shared media diets so men and women inhabit almost non-overlapping information worlds.
- Zac Seidler warns this creates different languages and kills social cohesion when people refuse conversation based on one consumed source.
Question Your Media Diet
- Step back from your media diet and ask what it's doing to your brain and goals before adopting its worldview.
- Zac recommends interrogating two-plus-hour podcast binges and noticing which ideas you simply absorb versus discuss with others.
The Split Is Both Directions
- Women are moving further left while men are not necessarily shifting that far right; the real split is both directions moving apart.
- Zac notes this asymmetric movement, not just a unilateral radicalisation of men.