This is the Mother Jones podcast.

I'm Jamila King in New York.

On today's show,

on today's show, having trouble keeping up, I am, recession threats, climate change, Trump, Trump, one big story hits, then another tsunami is right there.

Chaos feeds Trump, so he wants us to doubt what we know and how we know it.

Today, the science behind how you're hard-wired

to fall victim to the chaos beyond your control. Why for all the wonder of the

human mind were poorly suited to deal with truly giant problems

But there is something we can do about it coming up on the Mother Jones podcast, stick around.

You might have seen this viral clip going around this past week.

A video of Stephen Colbert, the

late show comedian, talking about grief with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Kind of difficult. I have fairly vivid memories from right after they died.

There was another part of their chat that really struck me and I want to play it for you.

We're constantly being told by this administration, you don't see what you see, you don't hear what you hear.

Now they're saying you don't feel what you feel. You don't actually feel that.

Colbert asked to talk about attacks on our shared reality,

and he sums it up beautifully.

Our president wants to live in a fantasy world where only the way he perceives the world is the way it is,

only things that sort of serve his vision, and he's also trying to convince us that that is the

only world that exists. It's extremely so absistic, but he's also trying to invite

us into this madness that he has and that is

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