What happens when the technology designed to connect us becomes the very force that divides us? In this provocative episode of the Truth Collapse podcast, host Noz Urbina and guest Lasse Rindom tear apart our comfortable assumptions about truth, identity, and connection in the digital age.

Starting with a seemingly simple observation that “demystifying doesn’t mean simplifying,” the conversation spirals into a philosophical exploration of how we’ve traded truth for attention, nuance for outrage, and genuine diversity for performative categorisation. Through personal stories of being misidentified, misunderstood, and caught between cultures, they reveal how the internet’s promise of bringing us together has instead created rigid categories that we defend with religious fervour.

But this isn’t just another doom-and-gloom tech critique. Drawing on philosophy from Jürgen Habermas to John Rawls, the duo explores surprising solutions: why tolerance (not love) might save democracy, how Europe’s post-WWII peace came from an uncomfortable truth about homogeneity, and why we need to stop seeking “things without the thing”—from decaf coffee to digital relationships. It’s a conversation that will make you rethink every label you use, every online argument you’ve had, and whether there was ever any truth to collapse in the first place.

“Demystifying does not mean simplifying. I don’t think anything needs to be simple. If things are complex, they’re complex, then you just have to explain them over and over and over until people somehow understand some of it.” — Lasse Rindom

“I’d love if we were discussing truth, information, data—we’re not, unfortunately. We are all discussing attention. That’s the only currency in the world right now.” — Lasse Rindom