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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 100 minutes
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0:00.0 | Nuclear war is the only event other than an asteroid strike that could end civilization. |
0:08.0 | If you believe your enemy is vicious and wants to kill you. |
0:13.8 | You're going to create programs that mirror theirs. |
0:18.1 | This is so dangerous. |
0:22.0 | Whoa. |
0:23.0 | These are the mysteries of some of the dark and dirty secrets. |
0:29.0 | Whether it's censoring social media, |
0:31.0 | whether it's spying on our own population, we are effectively trying |
0:36.2 | to, we the government, are trying to influence what ideas people focus on. |
0:42.3 | That to me me that is a self-evident-based assumption that my |
0:46.9 | worldview is predicated on. So for instance if you're like that doesn't make any |
0:51.0 | sense that would be a very good place to start disabusing me |
0:54.7 | of my delusions. |
0:56.4 | This idea that nuclear arsenals exist |
0:59.3 | on ready for launch status, and no one thinks about it has always been intriguing. |
1:05.8 | During the previous administration when former President Trump was |
1:10.4 | threatening nuclear war in essence with the leader of North Korea. |
1:14.4 | I was shocked because that was so unpresidential, meaning every president, you know, |
1:21.8 | before him was like there was a tacit understanding. |
1:25.3 | I mean, listen to Kennedy's speeches talking about the horrors of nuclear war. |
1:31.6 | So to hear President Trump talking about this as if it with a |
1:37.2 | sort of cavalier attitude was shocking to me as it was to a lot of people. And then I began to think about this idea that many of my |
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