Identifying Anti-tribal Intellectuals (Robert Wright & Arnold Kling)

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

How anti-tribal thinking formed the core of Arnold’s “Fantasy Intellectual Teams" (FITs) draft ... Was the pre-internet intellectual era really so great? ... Arnold lays out the details of the Fantasy Intellectual Teams draft ... Grassroots vs. institutional anti-tribal strategies ... Is a social media rebuild possible? ... The challenges in taking FITs to the next level ... Bob and Arnold contrast their approaches to anti-tribalism ... How bad could things get if we can't beat tribalism? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.8	Hi, Arnold.
0:10.5	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	Honored to be here.
0:12.9	Well, honored to have you.
0:14.5	I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
0:17.4	Let me introduce this.
0:18.7	I'm Robert Wright.
0:19.3	This is the right show.
0:21.7	Available both on streaming video and as an audio podcast. You are Arnold Kling.
0:28.1	An economist by training. That's not the main reason we're having this conversation, as I i'll explain but it's worth noting um and uh you
0:41.0	have i think worked at the federal reserve have you not in your uh among other things deep dark
0:46.6	past deep dark past you are i think it's fair to say of a free market orientation that uh you were
0:52.6	at the cato institute for a while that's not particularly relevant to the conversation we're going to have, but that's my,
0:59.4	the inference I'm drawing.
1:01.4	Is that fair?
1:02.8	Yeah, I'm a neoliberal.
1:05.2	Neo-liberal.
1:07.3	Isn't that, isn't that like the worst thing you can possibly be these days?
1:11.8	Well, it's funny. When you were at Cato, the worst thing you could be was a libertarian, which is what Cato was thought of at that time.
1:20.6	Actually, just to some point, I never had an office or a salary at Cato.
1:24.8	Okay. You were a, an adjunct which gives you nothing.
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