Ep 109 | Loneliness Is Worse for Cities than Godzilla | Guest: Tim Carney
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Did Trump win the election because economically displaced Rust Belt workers wanted a shake-up, or because old white guys can't handle change? Tim Carney rejects that dichotomy and says that the 2016 election had more to do with the nature of the community you hail from: whether it's connected, upwardly mobile, and optimistic, or pessimistic, disconnected, and lonely. His book, "Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse," dives into the nature of American communities and why the disappearance of clubs, churches, and diners is hurting the nation economically and psychologically.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and I really like your laugh lines. |
| 0:18.0 | They don't make you look old, they just make you look nice. |
| 0:21.0 | Never get Botox. Absolutely keep that. It's Thursday. And so we're going to do |
| 0:27.0 | thinky fun time. This is where I bring on a author or a think tank leader or a particularly intelligent warlord, maybe a eloquent mentat, something like that. |
| 0:38.7 | We're going to bring on Tim Carney in a minute, talk about his book, and it's a topic near |
| 0:42.2 | and dear to my heart because I think that it is a very important one. |
| 0:46.0 | I have mentioned this before in the program but I'll do it again. |
| 0:49.0 | I think that in the future when people are looking back on the period that you and I are in right now |
| 0:54.7 | they're going to see it as twofold as being a time of momentous technological change of just |
| 1:02.3 | incredible I think right now we're living in a time |
| 1:05.6 | period similar to not just the Industrial Revolution but the invention of writing. Just a game |
| 1:11.6 | changer with instantaneous communications where you can talk for free |
| 1:14.8 | to someone on the other side of the planet. |
| 1:16.6 | That's amazing. |
| 1:17.6 | And the kind of things that are going to be around the corner I think are also equally |
| 1:21.4 | stupendous. |
| 1:22.4 | Now that said, I think are also equally stupendous. |
| 1:22.6 | Now that said, I think the same people that look back and go, |
| 1:25.7 | wow, wouldn't that have been an amazing time to be around? |
| 1:28.2 | They're also going to go, I wouldn't want to live then. |
| 1:31.5 | Because they'll look back and they'll go, |
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