Everything is Fake
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
There is a God-shaped hole in the American soul. We’re not going to fill it with tech, or entertainment, or drugs, or violence--but lots of people might try. Big Tech wants the bots to whisper sweet nothings at you, others are on a quest to worship the ultimate superdrug, and still others would simply burn the system down just to feel something. Our editors discuss how we can come back down to reality.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Round Table. |
| 0:03.1 | It didn't stop at kind of, you know, backyard weed. |
| 0:06.9 | It's not stopping with, you know, like hydroponic |
| 0:10.7 | in the greenhouse, you know, cartel weed. |
| 0:13.4 | It's not stopping with, you know, weed |
| 0:15.7 | where the THC account is just like maxed out. |
| 0:19.6 | And it's not stopping with, you know, any of the harder drugs. |
| 0:23.0 | So it's clear that this is all representative |
| 0:28.0 | of a cultural obsession with super drugs, |
| 0:35.0 | with the kind of, you know, the ultimate height |
| 0:38.6 | of seeing what the ultimate drug is, |
| 0:41.6 | just kind of that knowledge, you know, |
| 0:44.0 | that like, nuke brain exploding head emoji moment of like, |
| 0:50.5 | it's this, you know, it's like seeing a god |
| 0:52.8 | just kind of like, emerged from the clouds, |
| 0:55.3 | like the ultimate high, like, |
| 0:57.5 | what would that even be, you know, |
| 0:59.0 | it becomes at a session of the imagination |
| 1:01.8 | when the imagination is untethered and afraid |
| 1:04.9 | that it's obsolete and needs to kind of latch onto something |
| 1:08.3 | big enough to justify its existence |
| 1:11.4 | in a world where the memory of machines |
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